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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:46:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: sobeck <sobeck@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Installation aborts with write failure on transfer
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, sobeck wrote:

> I am trying to install FreeBSD on a new Pentium PC running Windows '95. 
> I copied the contents of the bin and floppies directories (using FTP) to
> c:\bsd\bin and c:\bsd\floppies, created a new partition, and booted the
> boot.flp floppy.

Whoops!  Wrong directory.  That needs to be in c:\freebsd, not c:\bsd.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major