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This belongs in freebsd-questions, not freebsd-doc.

On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, phatom wrote:

> i'am new user for FreeBSD 
> i have serious problem to install FreeBSD
> 
> at the installation after fdisk etc...
> 
> He write message below (Write Failure on transfert!(WROTE -1BYTES OF 1024 
> BYTES))
> 
> What the probleme on my computer??????????????

About 20 things cause that error.

What method of installation are you using?  What did you configure in
fdisk and disklabel?

Type ALT-F2 to get the debug console and look for any suspicious messages.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major