Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:23:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: mike.grove@usask.ca (Michael Grove) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instalation Problems Message-ID: <199609191023.MAA29447@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960918155542.0067c9c0@mail.usask.ca> from "Michael Grove" at Sep 18, 96 09:55:42 am
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Michael Grove writes: > > I am running into problems installing the Minimum FreeBSD 2.1.5 package from > a DOS partition on one Hard Drive onto a Second drive that will be devoted > to FreeBSD. I can get through all the configeration steps but when it tryes > to accually copy the files over it returns the following error ... > > Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) > > Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1 > > I have all the bin files in the directory C:\FreeBSD\Bin. I am also running > Win95. Any ideas as to what could be wrong?? Win95. > Thanks in advance for any help you supply. This is becoming a FAQ. If you have trouble installing from a Microsoft partition, don't do it. Use CD-ROM or tape or even floppies. We really can't anticipate all the nonsense that Microsoft does, and I suspect that this particular problem is due to an incompatibility between Win95 and the traditional FAT16 file system. Greg
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