From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 06:50:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA20516 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 06:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from arl-img-8.compuserve.com (arl-img-8.compuserve.com [149.174.217.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA20506 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 06:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MGREENSLADE@CSI.compuserve.com) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by arl-img-8.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.9) id JAA29171 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:49:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:46:20 -0500 From: matt greenslade Subject: Install problem To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <199711190949_MC2-28BC-2AB7@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am trying to install a minimum OS (bin and manpages only to start with) on my old Tosh laptop. No CD Rom drive so I'm working from floppies - but thats cool. I got a boot.flp disk which works fine and starts the installation procedure. I choose 'custom' and select just the bin and manpages and I tell it that floppies are incoming media. All goes smoothly until I inserted the disk containing bin.be at which point I get the message 'write failure on transfer: 1 byte of 1024 transferred'. I tried with several other floppies but same problem so am I correct in assuming that this is a corrupt file? I have grabbed half a dozen other copies from various exotic mirror sites around the globe which have exactly the same effect. Even if I run bad block scan before starting....same thing. Anyone got any ideas? Or a working copy of bin.be? thanks, Matt Greenslade