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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:30:43 -0700
From: paulh@melbourne.net (Paul Hourmouzis)
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Dear Sir,
I have recently purchased FREEBSD from Walnut Creek CD ROM.

Having successfully installed it, I am now installing the software
applications tht came with the two CD ROM discs.

I have chosen DEVELOPER as a install set with XFree86, which, according
to sysinstall takes approximately 60MB of storage space.

I have a 1.2 GB HDD, however, on attempting to install some of the
software, sysinstall informs me that there are errors. (It actually skips
out of sysinstall and continually gives "write failure" messages, as if
the hard disk is full!!

This cannot be the case as I have just installed a few peices of
software??

Any ideas on what is causing the problem??
Can I install software onto another mounted device? If so, how??
Can I use the PORTS collection to reduce the installation??

I am a novice when it comes to installation of UNIX, however I do
consider myself a professional at installing and configuring other
operating systems.

Please help. Any assistance is appreciated.

Regards,
Paul Hourmouzis
paulh@melbourne.net