From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 27 05:30:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA24100 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 05:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA24079; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 05:30:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 05:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199610271330.FAA24079@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: misc/1899: Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR misc/1899; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: cheekiat@pacific.net.sg Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1899: Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:19:55 +0100 (MET) As cheekiat@pacific.net.sg wrote: > A dialogue box " Write failure on tranfer! (wrote -1 bytes > of 10240 byte)" appears. The background (ALT F2) display this messages > (followed from a much longer list) > " bin/cat > bin/chmod > bin/cp > pid 23:gunzip:uid0:exited on signal 11 Smells like bad hardware. Disable all caches, and try again. Let us know whether it's actually been hardware... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)