From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 19:34:37 2002 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 3E56D37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.starfishnet.com (smtp.starfishnet.com [208.11.184.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CDB43E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crt@starfishnet.com) Received: from barney.starfishnet.com (barney.starfishnet.com [208.11.184.4]) by smtp.starfishnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD1E18C169; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 22:32:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from crt [208.11.184.221] by barney.starfishnet.com (SMTPD32-7.12) id A38A827C0214; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 22:39:54 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01c287a1$e36ab1e0$ddb80bd0@crt> From: "Curt Tyler" To: Cc: References: <3DC8D5D0.22932.F0BB7@localhost> Subject: Re: 4.7 REL Install problem "Write failure on transfer!" Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 22:41:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-RBL-Warning: REVDNS: This E-mail was sent from a mail server 208.11.184.221 with no reverse DNS entry. X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Starfish Internet for Spam and Viruses. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm trying to install 4.7-Release from CDROM. > > BootMgr is installed and works to boot Win98. > > The FreeBSD partition seems to get formated ok. > > But when the "/bin" files are copied: "Write failure on transfer!" > When I boot from floppies and use the 4.7 CD for sysgen I get a similar > message. I can not boot from my CD either. > There have been several posts from others with similar difficulties with > 4.7 lately. I have been downloading and burning CDs since r4.1 with no > difficulties. The only way I can get 4.7 is to start with my 4.6.2 CD and > then cvsup up to 4.7 > ....... > > > > Should I replace my disk drive with a frog? > Probably won't help. > In my case I suspect that my CD burner or the media I am using must > be the culprits. I have downloaded the 4.7 ISOs from three different > mirrors, burned 4 CDs using two different burning programs. No luck. crt: I bought my CDs from daemonnews, since we have the same problem, crt: your CD burner or media are not likely to be the culprits. Oops, the error messages I see with Alt F2 (invalid bit length repeat) do look like trouble with the media. Silly me, I thought a "Write failure" would be a failure while writeing. Other posts implied that it could be my "El Cheapo" cdrom drive, but the workaround suggested (set hw.ata.ata_dma="1" etc before boot) didn't help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message