Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:19:37 -0400 From: InsaneX556@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with installing from MS-DOS partition/floppy. Message-ID: <960730091937_373049466@emout13.mail.aol.com>
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This is a pretty bad problem. I rawcopied the boot.flp file to the boot disk and it works perfectly. I am trying to install from an MS-DOS (Win95) partition. I copied all of the bin files into the c:\freebsd\bin directory and tried installing. The program installs all the partitions and everything is fine, until it gets to the copy/slash stage. Once the install program reaches about 120K of the first file it quits with an error message that there's an error writing the files. This problem is especially weird, because it actually READS from the partition, so it can't be a problem with recognizing the partition. I am trying to install from a Western Digital 2.5G EIDE hard drive onto a partition that is on the last 500M of the hard drive. I tried a floppy installation, but it doesn't even recognize the files on the floppy as the bin distribution files. Someone please help, I need to install the system FAST! Thanks for your help.
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