From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 15:51:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18243 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.sym-link.net (smtp.sym-link.net [198.7.147.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18197 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wpflum@zdial.com) From: wpflum@zdial.com Received: from pflum (dial-155-p1.zdial.com [198.7.147.155]) by www.sym-link.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.01) with SMTP id 302 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:28:44 -0500 To: Subject: Re: Floppy install - ongoing problem Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:33:22 -0500 Message-ID: <01bd40b3$6e80cb60$9b9307c6@pflum> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to install from floppy to a small system, 386 DX40, 245 meg IDE drive, 8 meg memory, 1 - 1.44 floppy, a vga card and I get as far as past setup and drive setup and to media installation and inserting the first install disk and after a few seconds I get a "WRITE FAILURE ON TRANSFER (WROTE -1 BYTES OF 1024 BYTES)". The debug screen says- DEBUG: REQUEST FOR /DIST/BIN/BIN.AA FROM FLOPPY ON /DIST, PROBE 0. PID 53 (GUNZIP), UID 0: EXITED ON SIGNAL 11 (CORE DUMPED) /STAND/CPIO: PREMATURE END OF ARCHIVE The system appears to read about 50k of floppy and then I get the above error. I've been told that it could be a memory module problem... I've changed mem modules and still get the error I've tried having the drive sectors checked a number of times. The mother board has an AMI Bios on it. Is there any problems with bios as it relates to FREEBSD?? All I'm trying to do is get a small Unix system up and running to do some experimenting with??? H E L P ! ! ! ! ! If the only answer is bad mem modules then can anyone tell me how I can check them?? I've down loaded a couple of ram test program and the all say mem if fine???? Frustrated in Reading!!!!!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message