From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 2 14:11:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from alfheim.satanic.net (alfheim.satanic.net [194.200.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C22D314D0F for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicolai@satanic.net) Received: from nicolai by alfheim.satanic.net with local (Exim) id 11Me8f-0005Ou-00; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:11:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14286.59384.798578.95115@alfheim.satanic.net> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:11:20 +0100 (BST) From: Nicolai E M Plum To: "brian j. peterson" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.67 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org brian j. peterson writes: > unfortunately, i don't have any help to offer here. i just wanted to say > that i ran into the same problem. > > i have an AS200 4/233 with 80 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB SCSI hard drive (/usr is > ~1.5 GB). during the FTP install of FreeBSD/alpha 3.2-RELEASE, i get the > following error: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 > bytes)". this occurs during the transfer of slib and appears to occur in > (or around) chunk 18. i was originally running SRM 6.2-2 when i ran into > this problem, but i have since upgraded to SRM 7.0-9 and am still seeing > the same problem. > > does anyone know if this is a problem with the distrobution? or if this > is a problem isolated to AS200 4/233s? or what? I have had this also. I discovered the following: In a standard-layout FTP tree, eg my local copy (mirror.uk.uu.net, feel free to use it if it's near you) the directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/3.2-RELEASE/src contains -r--r--r-- 1 mirror nobody 240640 May 16 20:29 slib.ao -r--r--r-- 1 mirror nobody 240640 May 16 20:29 slib.ap -r--r--r-- 1 mirror nobody 32768 May 16 21:52 slib.aq -r--r--r-- 1 mirror nobody 240640 May 16 20:29 slib.ar -r--r--r-- 1 mirror nobody 240640 May 16 20:29 slib.as so slib.aq appears to be short. It's short on ftp.freebsd.org as well. I just avoided the problem by installing a snapshot of 4.0. 4.0 seems to work a whole lot better for me anyway; 3.2-RELEASE seems to hang up after a while with errors from the SCSI driver to do with not being able to read a page of swap (which I seem to have lost the copy I saved of :-( ). Nicolai -- I speak only for myself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message