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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!! 911!!!! I am getting unable to extract errors....
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:34:15 -0500
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In article <MPG.db1b6c06cdd3d2b989688@news.igs.net>,
	black_sun@techie.com (Posideon) writes:
> I am trying to install from a DOS partition and all I get are Write 
> Failure on Transfer (wrote -1 bytes of...bytes) messages, followed by 
> Unable to extract the...distribution from wd0s1. Do you want to try to 
> retrieve it again? messages.
> 
> The distributions that didn't work were bin, dec, doc, manpages, dict, 
> krb,ssecure, sebones, x32lib, x32man, x32set, x32bin.
> 
> The only ones that did work were ports and the rest of the xfree86 dist.
> 
> It took me the better part of 4 days to download it, so I really want a 
> chance to play with the damn thing.
> 
> If I can't get it to work, I will delete all the files in effigy.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated and NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm.  Methinks I smells a DOS partition that FreeBSD can't deal with.

How big is your DOS partition, by the way?  I had the same problem a while
back with a 1.6 gig partition.  Had to create a smaller partition and put
the dists there.  There seem to be constant threads in this group about
this problem; you may want to check 'em out.  I can't recall the *exact*
limit on the size of DOS partitions, but it's certainly large enough to
accommodate all the dists.  I think anything under 1 MB is safe, but don't
quote me on that.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads