From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 19:08:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12105 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12100 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ts8-07.kin.istar.ca ([207.216.1.118] helo=genisis) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zmUYg-0006S1-00; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:08:31 -0500 Message-ID: <000401be20c6$3dc09fc0$7601d8cf@genisis> From: "Dru" To: "Nik Tranby" Cc: Subject: Re: 2.2.8 install problem Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:12:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Nik Tranby To: freebsd-questions Date: December 5, 1998 8:51 PM Subject: 2.2.8 install problem >Ok I'm installing version 2.2.8 for the first time, and I have this problem. >I'm installing off of floppies for various reasons. I start installing the >bin distribution, and when I get to disk 7 (about bin.bk) and it gives me >this error message: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 >bytes). Help! What's going on here? Sounds like a bad floppy to me. Try formatting a different floppy and re-copying the required files to it. Good luck; hope you enjoy FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message