From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 23 03:11:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA04218 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 03:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from arl-img-2.compuserve.com (arl-img-2.compuserve.com [149.174.217.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA04213 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 03:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MGREENSLADE@CSI.compuserve.com) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by arl-img-2.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.9) id GAA03093 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 06:11:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 06:08:52 -0500 From: matt greenslade Subject: Install error To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <199711230611_MC2-2955-2C8B@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk all, below is the text from the ALT+F2 console during the problem I am experiencing. I have tried with different floppies and different versions of the file (from different sites) as well as using bad block scan and increasing the partition and directory sizes but no luck - itcontinues to bomb out when installing bin.be with the error message: 'write failure on transfer: 1 byte of 1024 transferred'. DEBUG: Init floppy called for /dist/bin/bin.be distribution DEBUG: initFloppy: mounted floppy /dev/fd0 succesfully on /dist usr/bin/rlog usr/bin/rcsfreeze /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error gunzip:stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated /stand/cpio: premature end of file Any help much appreciated, regs, Matt Greenslade