Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:50:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: M Prabhanjan <mahidasp@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation error Message-ID: <40B0117D.50409@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040522235321.45641.qmail@web50603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040522235321.45641.qmail@web50603.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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