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P133
16MB RAM
1033M HD with a partition for DOS.
600MB PRI-DOS partition
300MB FreeBsd partition

I keep getting "panic: bad dir" when i am installing.  Then it
automatically reboots the machine and i have to start all over with the
installation.  I am installing from the DOS partition, and sometimes, when
i install from the floppy i get another message saying "Write failure on
transfer! (wrote -1 byte of 1024)"
Is there anything you know about this problem?