[SDBUG] Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

[Michael J McCafferty]

Good thoughts all... but I guess I should have clarified that I tried 
two identical, but separate machines.... everything has been changed, 
except model numbers.
Since this email, I tried the same installation on a different model 
machine, this one with an IDE disk drive instead of SATA, and the 
installation does the same thing. It completes, but when given the 
opportunity to do final configuration and install the distributions, 
I get the same wrote -1 of XXXXXXXX error.

This happens with both the FTP installation and the CDROM installation.

After speaking with a few people on this, I think the consensus is 
that the install program is broken. The work around is to use CVS to 
get the sources that the customer wants.


At 07:59 PM 4/30/2006, you wrote:
>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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