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From: Jason Holliston <jhollist@teleport.com>
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A couple notes to the below details about the problem.  First, the media is
good.  It has installed successfully on other machines after this problem
began on the HP machine.  Secondly, I have tried to create a /var partition
as well, and this problem persisted.

        -Jason


> You need to add a /var partition
>
> Jerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Holliston <jhollist@teleport.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 5:38 PM
> Subject: Installation problems
>
> >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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