[SDBUG] Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

[Al Plant]

Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> I am installing FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on this following system:
> 
> MSI-865GVM3-V Motherboard w/ On-board video set at 1M
> Onboard LAN
> Western Digital SATA 80GB drive
> 1GB Kingston RAM
> Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz
> 
> Installation mehtods: USB CDROM, FTP, IDE CDROM
> 
> The problem I am having during installation is that at the end of the
> installation, when I go to try and install the src distributions, I get the
> following error:
> 
> Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 of 1425408 bytes)
> 
> and one additional error depending on the source of the files....
> 
> USB CDROM drive:
> Unable to transfer the base distribution from cd0
> 
> IDE CDROM Drive:
> Unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0
> 
> 
> My customer complained that he was having seemingly random problems and errors
> during compiling stuff. He had a kernel panic once when using Debian on this
> system. So, I swapped the whole machine out and I get the same errors during
> the FreeBSD 6.0 installation. So.. swapped media, swapped source of files,
> swapped the machine. What gives ? Thoughts ? Help !?!?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

Aloha Mike,

I have had problems similar to this and have had several issues on 
different boxes.Sounds like hardware.

If you have swapped everything out including the source try a boot only 
disk and get the install files from the FreeBSD server.

Is the CDrom you are installing from one that has all the components on 
it for an install? Has it ( or the files on it) been used before 
anywhere for a successfull install?

What about the HD you are trying to use is it ok?
Did you swap it too?

What was the same about the failed installs? Any common denominator?

One of our Admins had a bad HD do this recently it too was a SATA drive 
200 GB. The CD installed on other boxes but not the one with the SATA.

I have three versions of FreeBSD 6. * on three boxes here with no 
install trouble. 6.0 Release among them. And just today tried 6.1 RC and 
it is fine. Used a disc1 copy I burned from the server.

Wish you luck....

Al Plant

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