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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:24:12 -0800
From:      LMSM <lmsilva@nevado.cui.edu.co>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problem installing from MS-DOS partition
Message-ID:  <32DB0A6C.1821@nevado.cui.edu.co>

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I used FIPS to split a 1gb partition, so it's now 711mb for DOS and 250mb
for FreeBSD.  I made a C:\FREEBSD\BIN and a C:\FREEBSD\DOC in my DOS
partition as described in the documentation and copied the corresponding
files there.  The installation goes fine, but when it's about to copy
the bin distribution, it displays a msg like "Error writing (-1 bytes
of xxxx copied)".  The debug information (ALT-F2) shows a lot of 
directory entries, followed by messages like "stdin/cpio: compressed
format invalid" or something like that.  I'm installing over a Conner
1081MB IDE hard disk on a 486Dx4 100mhz and DOS 6.2.  I've tried with
the normal and large options of the hard disk, and with this geometries:

1048/32/63 = large mode
2097/16/63 = CHS normal mode

Please, please, help me!
Thanks
Luis Manuel Silva
<lmsilva@nevado.cui.edu.co>



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