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From: cheekiat@pacific.net.sg
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Subject: Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition
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>Number:         1899
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 27 00:10:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 27 04:44:43 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 27 05:30:01 PST 1996
>Originator:     Teo Chee-Kiat
>Release:        2.1
>Organization:
Nil
>Environment:
Can't do this
>Description:
Try to install from a MS-DOS partition. Everything seemed ok till 
sysinstall really try to install from the MS-DOS partition.
A dialogue box  " Write failure on tranfer! (wrote -1 bytes
of 10240 byte)" appears. The background (ALT F2) display this messages
(followed from a much longer list)
" bin/cat
  bin/chmod
  bin/cp
  pid 23:gunzip:uid0:exited on signal 11
  DEBUG: Doing [Default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 7
  DEBUG: switch back to VTY1
  /stand/cpio: premature end of file"

  If I retry, the message appears on the back ground is
  "gunzip:stdin: not in gzip format"
   followed by some others.

   I do not know information I could provide. 

   HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Thanks in advance.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 27 04:44:43 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is a duplicate PR, and a known problem.  I'm afraid there's no 
immediate solution until Robert Nordier finishes his DOSFS rewrite, 
though he did send me some stand-alone DOSfs reading code which I may 
try to integrate into sysinstall as a temporary work-around.  This won't, 
however, help you much currently, I'm sorry to say. 

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: cheekiat@pacific.net.sg
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/1899: Installation failure from MS-DOS Partition
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:19:55 +0100 (MET)

 As cheekiat@pacific.net.sg wrote:
 
 > A dialogue box  " Write failure on tranfer! (wrote -1 bytes
 > of 10240 byte)" appears. The background (ALT F2) display this messages
 > (followed from a much longer list)
 > " bin/cat
 >   bin/chmod
 >   bin/cp
 >   pid 23:gunzip:uid0:exited on signal 11
 
 Smells like bad hardware.  Disable all caches, and try again.
 
 Let us know whether it's actually been hardware...
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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