Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:00:29 -0700 From: "Jesse J. Gilleland" <jesseg@dakotacom.net> To: "'support@cdrom.com'" <support@cdrom.com> Subject: FreeBSD Installation problems Message-ID: <01BC4518.4C197640@tuc4.dakotacom.net> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970417182007.333x@mother.cdrom.com>
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Hello. I recently purchased a copy of FreeBSD 2.1.5 (Actually, my place of business purchased it for me) I am having problems installing it to my harddrive. First, the system I am installing it to is a 486dx2/80 w/ 32 megs RAM, 2.5 G harddrive, partitioned 50% to Win95 and the other 50% is empty. My CD is a Funai-Panasonic (Cheap soundblaster kit) that FreeBSD doesn't seem to recognize as a drive, so I've copied the DISTS subdirectory into a FREEBSD directory on my C drive. When I boot from the floppy, I can get through the installation, but when it starts to copy the DISTS from the harddrive, I get an error "Write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) In what little paper doccumentation that comes with the system, it says that the drive geometry may be incorrect, and upon checking I found it was. I corrected the problem but still get this error every time I try to install. Any suggestions or Questions?
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