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I have had problems installing freebsd on a 486 dx4 motherboard with a 133 mh amd chip. The process dies during the bin transfer. 




error:


write failure on transfer!
wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes
                      100%

hit enter to continue.

------when I hit enter:


unable to transfer bin distribution from mscd0a
do you want to try to retrieve again?


**********************************************


the process fails at any percentage of transfer it could be at 10%
it could be at 90% 



I have had this problem since version 1.7 PLEASE HELP!!!



thanks 

al
"a bsd junkie"