Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem: Wrote -1 bytes of 1024... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828184034.233K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960828162339.10016G-100000@unicorn>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Gordon Henderson wrote: > I took a local mirror of 2.1.5-RELEASE to make my installations go faster, >From FTP, yes; from the filesystem, no. :-/ > 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. Hm. Possibly a network problem? Check ALT-F2 output and see what's choking. > 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. We do virutally the same thing and it works just fine. > 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. I think it's some sort of network problem (or you forgot to download the archives in binary mode). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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