Installation Freebsd 7.2 AMD64 on Proliant DL385 G5p

[Mark Atkinson]

SomeoneHere wrote:
> I just purchased one of these for our company as our mail server.  

I have one of these running freebsd-current currently.  It has 2-sas
drives in mirror mode, set from the firmware controller setup.  To the
install (I used a PXE install) it appeared as a normal drive and the
install went off without a hitch.

> I have ran
> freebsd on boxes (mail server, webserver, proxy server, ftp, etc) but this
> is the first actual "server" box.  Trying to install this on the box with
> the default geometry makes me receive the "Write failure on transfer (wrote
> -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)" error.

Which release are you trying to install?  8.0-RC2?  Did you get a
warning about the disk geometry from sysinstall?

>  Alt-f2 is showing
> /stand/cpio: premature end of file.  I have downloaded the image twice and
> burned twice yet receive the same error.  Is it not able to write because
> when using the default geometry it cannot format?  If anyone can point me in
> the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

This error you make me believe that the target media is not writable.