Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:47:46 -0600 From: Matt Evans <bitstream@netpc.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting error on installation procedure Message-ID: <32ED76E2.7672@javapc.com>
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I'm installing FreeBSD from a DOS Partition, which resides on a Seagate 2GB Baracudda drive. The DOS partition is 313MB, the rest is reserved for FreeBSD. The problem is, after setting up the FreeBSD slice and individual filesystems; /, /var, /usr, and swap. I get a "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes)" message. After reading a previous posting where someone used to Alt-F2 to get debug info, I was able to get a little more info: --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length DEBUG: Mounted DOS device (/dev/sd0s1) on /dos. . bin bin/cat bin/chmod /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1 /stand/cpio: premature end of file --------------------------------------------------------------------- This would seem to indicate a problem with the compressed install files located in the c:\freebsd\bin, c:\freebsd\des, etc. I have downloaded and verified the byte size of all the files in question, many times. I have checked the integrity of the DOS partition, which is good. The only thing I can think of is a possible incompatiblity between the freebsd loader and DOS partitions. I might add that this is actually an uncompressed Windows 95 partition. I have since read that there is a problem with installing FreeBSD from DOS partitions. ARRRGH!!!! Has this been fixed yet???!!! I would gather this present a major problem for people installing FreeBSD, if they aren't loading from CD-ROM. Please help. Matt Evans Bitstream Solutions, Inc. bitstream@javapc.com
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