From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 22:09:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA10579 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA10574 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id BAA08265; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:09:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:09:03 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: LMSM cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installing from MS-DOS partition In-Reply-To: <32DB0A6C.1821@nevado.cui.edu.co> 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, 13 Jan 1997, LMSM wrote: > I used FIPS to split a 1gb partition, so it's now 711mb for DOS and 250mb > for FreeBSD. I made a C:\FREEBSD\BIN and a C:\FREEBSD\DOC in my DOS You've got a problem here already. FreeBSD's root partition needs to reside within the first 1024 cylinders (approximately 500 megabytes) on the disk in order to be bootable. This is a limitation of PC BIOSes. > partition as described in the documentation and copied the corresponding > files there. The installation goes fine, but when it's about to copy > the bin distribution, it displays a msg like "Error writing (-1 bytes > of xxxx copied)". The debug information (ALT-F2) shows a lot of > directory entries, followed by messages like "stdin/cpio: compressed > format invalid" or something like that. I'm installing over a Conner > 1081MB IDE hard disk on a 486Dx4 100mhz and DOS 6.2. I've tried with > the normal and large options of the hard disk, and with this geometries: > > 1048/32/63 = large mode > 2097/16/63 = CHS normal mode > > Please, please, help me! > Thanks > Luis Manuel Silva > > Ben