From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 11:20:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA06794 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:20:58 -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 LAA06786 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA24714; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:20:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:20:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Brown cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD-2.1.6 basic (bin) installation on my Sony PCV-90 with 2.5 GB IDE drive 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 Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Gary Brown wrote: > I followed the Visual installation process by placing the '/bin' packages into > a DOS directory "C:/FREEBSD/BIN", creating a boot/installation disk from the > bootstrap programs and then proceeding to follow all instructions for creating > a base system (disabling drivers where necessary). > > The process appear to work up until it was time to place the "/bin" files into > the newly created FreeBSD partition. At this point, the Visual installation > process informed me that it could not write each block of data onto the > partition (write error code -1). Did you copy the .inf file along with the distribution? Warning: you may not be able to boot this partition; it depends if the Sony BIOS can boot above 1024 cylinders. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major