[SDBUG] Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

[Glenn Dawson]

At 11:43 AM 4/30/2006, you wrote:

>I am installing FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on this following system:
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>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
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>Installation mehtods: USB CDROM, FTP, IDE CDROM
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>The problem I am having during installation is that at the end of the
>installation,

You mean at the end of the menu selections when you tell it to commit 
the install?

>when I go to try and install the src distributions, I get the
>following error:
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>Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 of 1425408 bytes)
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>and one additional error depending on the source of the files....
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>USB CDROM drive:
>Unable to transfer the base distribution from cd0
>
>IDE CDROM Drive:
>Unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0
>
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>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 !?!?

Have you tried the install with ACPI turned off?

Details on exactly how you're partitioning the disk would be helpful 
in solving the problem as well.

-Glenn


>Thanks,
>Mike
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