From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 10:28:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05847 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from top.MTS.Net (top.mts.net [205.200.16.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA05822 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (flfnas01-p02.mts.net [205.200.31.137]) by top.MTS.Net (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id MAA25086 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:28:04 -0500 Message-ID: <32404D64.6F39@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:28:36 -0700 From: "K.C. Komosky" Organization: Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting, Flin Flon, MB X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E-SYMPA (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems in installing from DOS partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I hope that this is the appropriate forum for this, and that the readers of this group can help me out. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on my home PC. Since my CD-ROM is an Atapi-IDE type, I decided against ordering the CD and started downloading from the ftp.freebsd.org site onto my DOS partition. I intend FreeBSD to be in a second partition right after the initial DOS one. Everything seems to go along fine, but I get an error message: Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1 I select try again. It moves along (skipping the bin distribution), and then I get Unable to transfer the doc distribution from wd0s1 Again I select try again, and then get this error message Write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) Then the usual Unable to transfer the manpages distribution... This continues on for a couple of more attempts (it now skipped back to attempting the bin distribution), then I get the ominous sounding anic: bad dir syncing disks... 19 19 18 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up automatic reboot in 15 seconds This is a novice install, with the X-User package. Now what am I doing wrong? The distribution files are in the c:\freebsd\bin folder, and in the other appropriate areas, as detailed in the FreeBSD handbook. I downloaded all of the files for the ftp directory /pub/freebsd/2.1.5-release/bin, and the other directories. I've read through the chapter on installation several times, but I couldn't find anything to help me here. My computer particulars (those that I know) Pentium 75 MHz, TS54P AIO Motherboard (Intel Triton chipset), 16 megs RAM, Fujitsu M1606TA ATA interface hard drive (1089MB) I have a pre-existing 447MB Primary MS-DOS 6.22 partition (altered to that size by fips.exe utility from freebsd site), and am trying to install on a 248 FreeBSD partition. The rest of the disk is empty, reserved for an eventual installation of Windows NT Workstation (unfortunately held up in shipping, now 31 days and counting... :-( ). I also installed the boot manager that came with FreeBSD. I tried to right down as many excruciatingly boring details as possible to aid in any diagnosis, but if I'm missing any I will quickly provide them. Jeesh! I knew I would have problems installing this, but I figured I would get a _little_ further than this! Thanks for any and all help. You can reach me by private e-mail, or via this mail list (to which I've just subscribed). -------------------------------------------------------------------- K.C. Komosky kc@mb.sympatico.ca umkomosk@cc.umanitoba.ca Mineralogist, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting, Flin Flon, MB, CANADA Director, Reform Party of Canada, Churchill Constituency Association --------------------------------------------------------------------