From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 00:20:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3283C16A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:20:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB43D43D46 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:20:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.181]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUP00GELCXFHCF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:20:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUP00J2NCXFN1B0@pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:20:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([24.108.158.26]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IUP00KX0CXESTE0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:20:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:20:02 -0800 From: David Armour To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <43F273B2.6070502@myrealbox.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0607-1, 02/14/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Subject: sysinstall 6.1 b1 input/output error "unable to transfer" from both CD or FTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:20:37 -0000 hello list in the middle of installing freebsd [6.1 b1] over an earlier ubuntu trial during transfer from CD to hard drive, i began to see "unable to transfer ... from acd0" error messages for first the doc, manpages, dict, and base distributions. i switched the install media to ftp and successfully installed the doc, manpages and dict distributions (i think!) before again encountering the "write failure on transfer" error for the base distribution. i burned the install cds at a 16x speed and 'verified' them with nero, if that makes any difference. my archive searches with the errors above pasted in produced conflicting or dated results. is there a way to easily narrow down the list of culprits? any help greatly appreciated.