From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 13:52:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA26812 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk (oxmail2.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA26804 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xserver.sjc.ox.ac.uk by oxmail2 with SMTP (PP); Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:52:02 +0100 Received: by xserver.sjc.ox.ac.uk (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0wykOe-0013uVC; Wed, 13 Aug 97 21:52 BST Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:52:00 +0100 (BST) From: Adam Sandman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems during a Floppy Install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sir/Madam I attempted to install FreeBSD from floppy disc (DOS format 1.44) on a 486DX2 system with an AHA-154x SCSI hard disc controller and Conner CEP1060S hard disc. The install goes perfectly until it comes to writing the contents of the first floppy onto the hard disc, whereby I get :- "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) Do you have any ideas as to what might be causing the problem? I've even performed a low-level format to remove any vestiges of my linux partitions! Thanks Adam ------------------------------------------------------ Adam Sandman Tel: +1 617-876-2302 (home) 516 Green Street #3A +1 508-741-5300 (work) Cambridge MA 02139 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh0018 ------------------------------------------------------ "You do what you do best, not what it's best to do..." Martin Amis 1988.