From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 08:49:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA05774 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (unicorn.uk1.vbc.net [204.137.194.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA05760 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gordon@localhost) by unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18447; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:48:53 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:48:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson X-Sender: gordon@unicorn To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install problem: Wrote -1 bytes of 1024... Message-ID: Distribution: world Organization: Home for lost Drogons MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone see this on installation? I took a local mirror of 2.1.5-RELEASE to make my installations go faster, but when trying to use them, I sometimes get this error message that seems to imply that it had problems writing to disk. It happens mostly during load of the /bin stuff, and sometimes on the manpages too. It does successfully get some packages. eg. ssys. If I reboot the machine and restart the install from scratch from ftp.freebsd.org, then it goes just fine (but a lot lot slower )-: Anyone see this before? It's quite annoying! I grabbed my mirror using ncftp with a get -R 2.1.5-RELEASE, and setup a local ftp server for it, giving it the correct URL for the ftp - it loggs in ok and starts the transfer, then fails with this odd error message. Any pointers to solve this would be appreciated - I have a fair few machines to build soon and it's a real drag trying to FTP it from a remote site. Gordon