From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 11:37:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28BA15036 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00502; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:35:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Langa Kentane Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problem (newbie) In-Reply-To: <003601be83af$696e62f0$0a00a8c0@cyberzone1.cyberzone.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE for the last 3 days. > > Problem is that when it starts copying the bin distribution thingie it comes > up with the ff error: > > write error on tranfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) At this point press ALT-F2 and report any error messages you see. > I was installing from a dos (fat 16) partition (1.8 gig in size). This must be a primary partition; extended partitions aren't supported for installation. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message