Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:48:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: wpflum@zdial.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy install - ongoing problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224124746.26338U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bd40b3$6e80cb60$9b9307c6@pflum>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 wpflum@zdial.com wrote: > I've been trying to install from floppy to a small system, > 386 DX40, 245 meg IDE drive, 8 meg memory, 1 - 1.44 floppy, a vga card and I > get as far as past setup and drive setup and to media installation and > inserting the first install disk > and after a few seconds I get a "WRITE FAILURE ON TRANSFER (WROTE -1 BYTES > OF 1024 BYTES)". The debug screen says- DEBUG: REQUEST FOR /DIST/BIN/BIN.AA > FROM FLOPPY ON /DIST, PROBE 0. PID 53 (GUNZIP), UID 0: EXITED ON SIGNAL 11 > (CORE DUMPED) /STAND/CPIO: PREMATURE END OF ARCHIVE The system appears to > read about 50k of floppy and then I get the above error. > > I've been told that it could be a memory module problem... I've changed mem > modules and still get the error I've tried having the drive sectors checked > a number of times. What kind of processor do you have? you could have bad cache too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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