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From: gerard@holly.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: installation problems - write failure on transfer
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:59:42 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Hello,
My installation of FreeBSD 2.1.5 isn't going as planned and I hope
someone might be able to help. First a little background...
My computer is a Pentium 75 with 1G WD HD (c:), 420M
Conner HD (d:), Reveal CDROM, soundcard, 1.44 FD, VGA. I downloaded
the files from ftp.freebsd.org/......./2.1.5-Release/bin, XF86312, and
des directories, and
also the boot.flp (that's all I need to get started right?). I was
able to get to the installation menu from the floppy and start the
process. I want to put FreeBSD on the Conner and chose default options
for the whole disk, average user. When it began the installation
process
it got to the point where it started copying the /bin files from c:.
(c:\freebsd\bin, c:\freebsd\des, etc.) It seems to copy a little bit
(1%) then gives:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes)
Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1
It also gives similar messages for des, etc. Thinking that there might
somehow be a conflict with the CDROM and one of the drives (it's daisy
chained to the Conner), I unhooked it. Then the installation process
got up to 3% on copying the /bin before the same error messages. So
now I'm wondering if the problem is due to the 1G western digital.
It's 2100C 16 63, but is setup in BIOS as 525 64 63 LBA (pfdisk says
524 64 63). The installation disk startup shows 2100 16 63, but in the
menus its 525 64 63. Before I go messing with the drive settings in
BIOS,
which has caused lost data before, I'd like to see what you think.
Thanks in advance,
Gerard Giamberdine
gerard@holly.colostate.edu
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