From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 18:56:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07219 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA07214 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA18994 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:58:14 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa02015; 10 Nov 96 22:02 EST Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:02:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric M. Forden" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm not sure where to post the following question: I am running Win95 on one hard drive in my machine. I downloaded the bin, des, dict, doc, manpages, proflibs, and info directories from ft.freebsd.org into C:\FREEBSD and I would like to install FreeBSD on a second hard drive which has nothing on it. When I go through the boot floppy and get everything set up, the commit program is giving me problems. When it starts to copy the files, it gives an error: 'Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024)'. The hard drive I am installing from is a Seagate 2.1GB and the hard drive I'm trying to install to is a Seagate 1GB. Both are set up to use Block Mode, LBA, and 32 bit transfer. I tried turning off the Block/LBA/32 bit transfer on the second drive, but I still am getting the Write error. I have asked quite a few times on the #FreeBSD channel on IRC but no one seems to know the answer. My machine is a 486DX4/120 PCI with 16MB of ram. I also tried to install it via ftp (the sysadmin at my ISP has the distribution installed on a machine) but when I get all the fields filled in, it will not connect to the site I am specifying. If anyone could give me some assistance, that would be great - I'm really anxious to get FreeBSD running on my machine. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Eric