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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!nntp.igs.net!not-for-mail From: black_sun@techie.com (Posideon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP!! 911!!!! I am getting unable to extract errors.... Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:38:17 -0400 Organization: IGS - Information Gateway Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <MPG.db21a14c526345398968a@news.igs.net> References: <MPG.db1b6c06cdd3d2b989688@news.igs.net> <7c19i5.v5.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ttya15.ptbo.igs.net X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v1.10.575 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38616 I tried copying the files to a DOS partition about 220 MB in size, still no go. Any other advice? I'd do it by FTP but I can't figure out how to use the PPP program. Thanks. > > 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. > 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. > -- Craig Newell Black Sun Microsystems black_sun@techie.com