From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 05:05:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA11815 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 05:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nevado ([200.25.10.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id FAA11810 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 05:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ([200.25.10.6]) by nevado (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA04674; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:13:28 +0500 Message-Id: <32DB0A6C.1821@nevado.cui.edu.co> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:24:12 -0800 From: LMSM X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem installing from MS-DOS partition X-Url: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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