From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 01:57:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA24241 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA24236 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA06971; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:57:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Rob Ayres cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Help!! :) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Rob Ayres wrote: > Im trying to load freeBSD 2.1 onto my PC. The PC only has one hard disk > which is going to be totally dedicated to freeBSD. The hard disk and > CDROM are both on the same EISA cable. I boot the PC using the ATAPI > boot floppy created from the CD, and use the -c option and then visual > to sort out any conflicts and disable devices I dont have. > > The PC then boots into the installation menu so I can set up my > partitions and select the options I want from the CDROM ( I chose the > custom installation ). Finally it asks me to select my instalation > medium which is CDROM. It then says 'extracting bin in / directory'. > after a a minute of sitting at 1% it then says 'write failure on > transfer! ( wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes )'. > > Can you tell me what this mesage means and how I can fix it please!! About a million things. Hit ALT-F2 and look for any suspicious messages. need....more....info!!! .... . CPU type . Equipment Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major