From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 19:15:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA22962 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA22957 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA11497; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:15:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:15:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: David Slavik cc: freebsd-install@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Write Failure on install In-Reply-To: <199701141738.LAA07590@babba.cu-online.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, David Slavik wrote: > I'm install freeBSD 2.1.5 onto a dual drive system with NT4.0 and Win95 > already loaded. the second drive (a Maxtor 3.5gig) is completely free > . The boot drive (a seagate 1.275gig) has NT4 and win95 plus misc. > files using up about 900 megs of space. > I attempted to install freeBSD to the Maxtor drive, I set aside about > 2gigs for the bsd partition, I copied the /dist files (all of em) to the c: > drive, then ran install from the cd-rom (a hitachi 4x speed, not supported once > BSD loaded). Install proceeded smoothly until I got to the actual file > copying phase. When It began to copy the dist files it would get about 100-200kk > of the initial /dist/bin then give me this error > Write Failure On Transfer > (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) Hit 'ALT-F2' at this point and record any strange error messages. You could have a corrupt file, missing bin.inf file, or an unhappy DOS filesytem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major