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From: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Subject: Re: Write failure on transfer! -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:00:37 -0500
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> From: shegonee@ix.netcom.com
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Write failure on transfer! -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
> Date: Wednesday, August 14, 1996 8:41 PM
> 
> What does that mean:
> Write failure on transfer! -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
> I am trying to install FreeBSD from  the Walnut Creek CD-Rom on a new
> 1 gig drive on my Pentium. Ine install program creates the partions then
> bombs out with this message when it start st unzip the files.
> Can you give me a list of possible reasons why this might happen?
> I look through the FAQ - a few people have reported this problem
> but I couldn't any answers.
> Thanks
> Kirk :)
>  
>

Greetings,

    I've encountered this same problem on 3 different occasions, each time
the cause was different.  
1) Drive geometry problem
	a: corrected problem by first partitioning and formatting the disk with
DOS, then
            b: installing from FBSD distribution, thus deleting the DOS
partition
	
2) Bad Cache 
 	a: disable, remove, or replace cache memory

3) SCSI Termination
	a: I had incorrectly terminated my SCSI bus.  Correcting this error
corrected the problem.


Hope this helps


Randy