From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 16:18:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA14550 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA14535 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:18:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from trin.demon.co.uk ([158.152.219.125]) by relay-10.mail.demon.net id aa1014087; 6 Jan 97 23:30 GMT Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:29:31 +0000 To: freeBSD From: Rob Ayres Subject: Help!! :) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 1.10 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, hope you can help me. Im trying to load freeBSD 2.1 onto my PC. The PC only has one hard disk which is going to be totally dedicated to freeBSD. The hard disk and CDROM are both on the same EISA cable. I boot the PC using the ATAPI boot floppy created from the CD, and use the -c option and then visual to sort out any conflicts and disable devices I dont have. The PC then boots into the installation menu so I can set up my partitions and select the options I want from the CDROM ( I chose the custom installation ). Finally it asks me to select my instalation medium which is CDROM. It then says 'extracting bin in / directory'. after a a minute of sitting at 1% it then says 'write failure on transfer! ( wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes )'. Can you tell me what this mesage means and how I can fix it please!! Thanks Rob -- Rob Ayres