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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:19:31 -0800
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i recently bought a freebsd cd rom in which i try to install ,but got this
error message
"write failure on transfer wrot -1 bytes of 1024bytes.
i know i followed all instructions on boot flp first made directory called
freebsd then copied dists bin files to it then i defraged,then used
fips,then placed
boot disk on a:  ,i picked novice ,i placed parted the drive in three
sections .
/  then /usr the swap files then /var  and end with error . i have a 486
dx66 with 1600 megs hard disk 16 megs ram cd rom win 95.