From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 19:50:46 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 733FE16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 19:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A60143D1F for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 19:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F8D69A71; Sat, 22 May 2004 22:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40B0117D.50409@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:50:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: M Prabhanjan References: <20040522235321.45641.qmail@web50603.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040522235321.45641.qmail@web50603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 23 May 2004 02:50:46 -0000 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