Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:16:40 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> To: Derek Collison <Derek.Collison@tibco.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation issue Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960719111350.945B-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <9607182139.AA00625@tekbspa.tibco.com>
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i saw this happen when the DOS partition you've mounted and want to read from has a cluster size > 32k (ie, > 64 sectors per cluster). my solution: FIPS the big DOS partition to create a smaller partition, then format this one in DOS. copy the freebsd files to this new partition, and mount this one. you can un-FIPS it after installation, but your original big DOS partition would not be _safely_ readable from BSD still. ivan On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Derek Collison wrote: > I am trying to install 2.1.5-RELEASE from a DOS partition. I have the > freebsd contents under a directory called freebsd on the DOS partition. As I > go through novice installation I tell it to use this as the media. It seems > to think awhile and then gives the following error. > > write failure on transfer wrote (-1 bytes of 10240 bytes). > > [snip]
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