Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:32:59 -0800 From: "Scott MacFiggen" <smf@pdm.kla.com> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: scrappy@reptiles.org Subject: Re: Crash & Burn: A Woe Tale of 2.0.5-RELEASE Install Message-ID: <9511031532.ZM3957@buford.wring.pdm> In-Reply-To: owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org "questions-digest V1 #214" (Nov 3, 2:20pm) References: <199511032220.OAA09189@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@reptiles.org> > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 10:51:24 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Crash & Burn: A Woe Tale of 2.0.5-RELEASE Install > > Oh well. I downloaded boot.flp, root.ftp and the complete bin > distribution. Now, the first mistake was that it isn't listed anywhere > in the Preparation sections of handbook.ascii, but ... it nowhere mentions > that to install from floppy, you have to put the bin.* file in a /bin > directory on the floppy themselves... >From the INSTALL file on ftp.cdrom.com under subsection 2.2 'Before installing from Floppy:' "Each distribution should go into a subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\bin\bin.ab, ..." > Got through the install phase, and got through bin.a[a-m] before > I got an error message on my screen - Write failure on transfer! (Wrote > - -1 bytes of 10240 bytes). Great, my hard drive is screwed, since it does > say it is a write error, doesn't it? I got this error when I tried to install the man page distribution. It happened because I downloaded the files in ascii mode not binary mode. -Scott
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