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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Release Install Problems. HELP!
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 20:12:00 -0700
Organization: Erols Internet Services
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J.Kelly wrote:
> 
> Ditto on the above. Spent a solid 15 hours installing, removing,
> varifying instructions, installing.removing,varifying...........
>      I tried both release 2.1 and snap 6/12 and got different results
> from each.
>      Allocated 500m using fips(WD 1220EIDE)and had no problems with the
> floppy raw or booting the install disk. The installation went well
> up until the point in which it was time to select an installation
> media. Tried the FTP using the address info provided from serv. prov.

  [snip...]

>      Decided the FTP was over my head and proceeded to download
> the bin onto a dos partition and try the other method. That was
> when I ran into a range of problems that centered around writing
> to the drive. Watching the debug, it seemed the dos mounted ok and the
> files were found(checksum ok) however, when it attempted to write
> to the BSD mount, it would write some and then quit.

What error messages did you get? The exact messages would be very 
informative.

-- 

Ken

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