From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 19:12:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.21stcentury.net (mail1.21stcentury.net [216.80.19.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865DA37B71F for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:12:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlewis@21stcentury.net) Received: from 24-148-26-39.na.21stcentury.net ([24.148.26.39]) by mail1.21stcentury.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA6DD8 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:57:41 -0600 Received: by 24-148-26-39.na.21stcentury.net with Microsoft Mail id <01C0B0B8.C6A447E0@24-148-26-39.na.21stcentury.net>; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:08:41 -0600 Message-ID: <01C0B0B8.C6A447E0@24-148-26-39.na.21stcentury.net> From: "Thomas Lewis" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: install error msgs Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:06:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, making 1st FreeBsd 4.2 intall attempt. Installing as only OS on a Pentium MMX 200mgz box with 64 mg ram and a = 3 gig HD=20 I'm able to set the partitions(used defaults) when the extaction of the bin to / directory starts, I get an error = "Write failure on transfer" followed by "Unable to transfer the bin = distribution fro acd0c".=20 I read in the trouble .txt file Question? What is this " 'bios_drive:interface (unit,partition) = kernel_name ' thing that is displayed with the boot help? Answer ....longstanding problem in the case where the boot disk not the = first disk in the system.....Bios uses a different numbering = scheme...... How do i make the boot disk(I'm booting from the cdrom) the 1st disk = recognized? I'm a Linux/FreeBsd newbie. Have Unix experience from my job.(1 year). = Had Solaris X86 installed on this same box. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message