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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hackers/EVERYONE please READ THIS!! Date: 7 Jul 1996 16:27:54 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4rooia$3pp@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <31de9605.576732@news.infolink.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.150 In article <31de9605.576732@news.infolink.net>, Benjamin Lim <fade@infolink.net> wrote: >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! Am I understanding you correctly? Have you created a FreeBSD partition or not? You certainly will never succeed at installing until you have a partition setup! -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads