From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 16:53:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 7BF9716A4CE for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 16:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web50603.mail.yahoo.com (web50603.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E24A43D2F for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 16:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mahidasp@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040522235321.45641.qmail@web50603.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.6.212.138] by web50603.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 22 May 2004 16:53:21 PDT Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:53:21 -0700 (PDT) From: M Prabhanjan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: mahidasp@yahoo.com Subject: FreeBSD Installation error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 23:53:35 -0000 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 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com: /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