From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 00:08:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00494 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00479 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02240; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:07:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adam Sandman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems during a Floppy Install In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Adam Sandman wrote: > > > 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? Press ALT-F2 and report the error message(s) you see. You probably forgot bin.inf. > I've even performed a low-level format to remove any vestiges of my linux > partitions! That was _overkill_ ;-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo