Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:02:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric M. Forden" <forden@buffnet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961110215334.25772A-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>
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I'm not sure where to post the following question: I am running Win95 on one hard drive in my machine. I downloaded the bin, des, dict, doc, manpages, proflibs, and info directories from ft.freebsd.org into C:\FREEBSD and I would like to install FreeBSD on a second hard drive which has nothing on it. When I go through the boot floppy and get everything set up, the commit program is giving me problems. When it starts to copy the files, it gives an error: 'Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024)'. The hard drive I am installing from is a Seagate 2.1GB and the hard drive I'm trying to install to is a Seagate 1GB. Both are set up to use Block Mode, LBA, and 32 bit transfer. I tried turning off the Block/LBA/32 bit transfer on the second drive, but I still am getting the Write error. I have asked quite a few times on the #FreeBSD channel on IRC but no one seems to know the answer. My machine is a 486DX4/120 PCI with 16MB of ram. I also tried to install it via ftp (the sysadmin at my ISP has the distribution installed on a machine) but when I get all the fields filled in, it will not connect to the site I am specifying. If anyone could give me some assistance, that would be great - I'm really anxious to get FreeBSD running on my machine. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Eric
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