Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:36:51 -0800 From: Jason Holliston <jhollist@teleport.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation problems Message-ID: <36ACF203.9307F0FE@teleport.com>
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Greetings,
I've been having a rather difficult time attempting to install FreeBSD
3.0 from the walnut creekCD-ROM distribution. This is the error
I get during the install:
"Write failure on transfer! wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes".
I have an HP Pavillion with:
Pentium 233 MMX chip
128 megs of RAM
6 gig Quantum Fireball(EIDE) hard drive
ATAPI internal Zip drive
SB AWE64 sound card
Intel EtherExpress NIC
3COM v.90 modem
First I was attempting to setup my hard drive like this:
1st slice ---> 2000 megs w/ Win95
2nd slice ---> 4000 megs w/ FreeBSD
swap ---> 256 megs
/ ---> 500 megs
/usr ---> (approx.) 3244 megs
I used DOS fdisk to create the original partitions, and then began the
FreeBSD install. Shortly after the copying over phase, I receive the
above message. Looking at Control-F2, I saw a slew of "cpio: invalid
checksum error, wrote 29387 blocks of junk."
I read emails from other people having this same sort of problem, and
tried the following: eliminating the DOS slice completely and letting
FreeBSD use the entire hard drive; turning off BIOS LBA and verifying
that FreeBSD is seeing the hard drive's correct geometry and not
attempting to use the LBA's translated geometry. I also noticed a
setting in the BIOS for different sorts of large disk support. It
listed UNIX under the "other" category, so I tried that as well, with
not much luck.
As an experiment, I installed RedHat 5.0, and it appeared to install
correctly without any trouble. (UGH!)
Any suggestions? If you have any further questions, please ask away.
:-)
-Jason
jhollist@teleport.com
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