FreeBSD Installation error
I am unable to install FreeBSD on a PC that has 4GB disk space. I am trying to install from a CD that I bought sometime back. In the installation's Choose Distributions menu, I choose to install X-Developer and X-Kern-Developer distributions. I get the following error message during the installation: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) [ Press enter to continue ] On pressing enter, I get the following message: User Confirmation Requested Unable to transfer the scontrib distribution from acd0c. Do you want to try to retrieve it again? Is this due to lack of disk space (4GB) or bad sectors in the hard disk? However, through a search on the internet I found that someone else also has gotten into the same problem described above [unfortunately it is in Japanese and I cant make a word out of it!] Here is the output of uname -a from interactive shell: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Sat Apr 21 11:15:36 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS Thanks, MP Mahidas P (O)408-273-7836 (R)408-245-4591 Wisdom is two notches up knowledge __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Installation error
M Prabhanjan wrote: I am unable to install FreeBSD on a PC that has 4GB disk space. I am trying to install from a CD that I bought sometime back. In the installation's Choose Distributions menu, I choose to install X-Developer and X-Kern-Developer distributions. I get the following error message during the installation: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) [ Press enter to continue ] On pressing enter, I get the following message: User Confirmation Requested Unable to transfer the scontrib distribution from acd0c. Do you want to try to retrieve it again? Is this due to lack of disk space (4GB) or bad sectors in the hard disk? If you switch to the interactive shell and issue df -h, it will tell you how much space it used. I've only seen this particular error when there was a hardware problem, however. I may be remembering wrong, but I seem to remember a cheap CD-ROM plugged into the same chain as the HDD causing this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
