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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!hookup!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com 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 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31E9B700.5DDE@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4q9t84$ih@gde.GDEsystems.COM> <31E2CC3E.4D86@bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) 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 Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |