From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 18:42:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29863 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29857 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00301; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gordon Henderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem: Wrote -1 bytes of 1024... In-Reply-To: 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, 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