From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 7 19:34:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA02921 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 19:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA02916 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 19:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA29545; Wed, 7 May 1997 19:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 19:34:10 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: korn@cryogen.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <199705072049.NAA14392@geocities.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 Wed, 7 May 1997 korn@cryogen.com wrote: > When i tried to install it, it was extracting the bin and said "Wrote -1 of 1024 bytes" or something like that. > Are you installing from floppies? I believe that this happened to me about 8 times (!) while doing my install from floppies. It means that your disk is screwey, AFAIK, so just replace that one with another, and see if that clears it up. I suppose that can probably be generalized to a media problem, if you're using some other method. Hope it helps!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*