From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 2:18:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227B437B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA10049; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:25:48 +0200 Message-ID: <3B540348.9B86124C@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:20:08 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Install problems on Compaq References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick O'Reilly schrieb: > > Help? > > I'm trying to install 4.2 on an old Compaq Deskpro. When trying to write > /bin and /src, etc from the CD I get errors saying that -1 bytes were > written ?!? Disk full error, isn't it? Either your partitions are too small, or your RAM disk is not big enough to unpack some binaries. > This same CD has been used to install a dozen other PCs without a hitch! > Does anyone know if there is anything special about old Compaq Deskpros (It > is a 200 MMX processor). It would do that, too. Repartition again, and keep an eye to partition sizes. On old boxes, choosing default (automatic) partition sizes causes some pretty crazy results. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message