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From: fade@infolink.net (Benjamin Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Hackers/EVERYONE please READ THIS!!
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 08:26:43 GMT
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I've been trying to solve this problem for ages now but with no luck.
People have told me to make my partition with the freebsd source
smaller (the dos partition) , but I just can't do that cause win95 is
in it. Can't u hackers just make FreeBSD work with the Adaptec 7850
and my SEAGATE hard disk? Please read the below article which I posted
a few days ago...HELP :( And yes, i only have 1 VERY BIG HARD DISK (2
gigs)...
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Hi there. I'm having some trouble installing the latest version of
FreeBSD 2.2 Snap.
I've downloaded most of the important files and placed it in the
c:\freebsd directory:
c:\freebsd\bin
c:\freebsd\doct
c:\freebsd\doc
c:\freebsd\floppies
c:\freebsd\games
c:\freebsd\info
c:\freebsd\manpages
c:\freebsd\proflibs
c:\freebsd\xf86312
Why i got FreeBSD 2.2 snap was because it is the only version of
Freebsd that supports my Hard Disk controller which is an adaptec
7850. Here are the specs of my system from the manual:
P54TS--CPU Pentium P54C/P55C with a Pentium 166 Chip
Adaptec PCI Fast scsi-2 port
Dual enhanced IDE ports
256K pipeline burst cache on board
two 16550 Uart Ports
ECP/EPP/SPP/Bi-direction parallel port
Upto 2.88 MB FDC port
Bios: Award Bios, p&p setup for adaptec scsi. enhanced ide and
multi-OP. Both flash rom.
Fast/wide/ultra SCSI-2 Interface: P54TS built in Adaptec AIC-7850 chip
for PCI fast scsi-2
Date Transfer rate up to 10MB/Sec for 8 bit Fast SCSI-2
I have 32 MB of ram.
The other stuff is not relevent so i dont' think i will print it.
My hard disk is a Hawk 2LP Family: ST32430N/ND 2 GIGS
Checking with PFDISK, this is the info it prints out:
# Partition table on device: 0
geometry 261 255 63 (cyls heads sectors)
# ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors)
1 6 0 197 DOSbi # 63, 3180807
(there is no partition 2 because i havn't created the freebsd
partition yet)
When I try and Install FREEBSD, at the start of the bin distrubution
and the others I get this error:
"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)"
What is the problem? I am installing from another partition of my hard
disk and as far as I can tell, freebsd install doesn't even read from
it but only displays the error!
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