FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

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It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the 
drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the 
drives from the first install but they are missing the mount locations.

Any suggestions on a work around?

Lino

lists wrote:

> Loren M. Lang wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct 
>>> list - apologies if I am off target.
>>>
>>> I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a  hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a 
>>> dual processor P3 with three scsi2 drives running in a raid1 
>>> configuration with one hot spare.
>>>
>>> We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 or 
>>> 4.9 without a hitch.
>>>
>>> I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a 
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I go through the install process. When it goes to write the file 
>>> structure to the drives it does this in a around 1 second - this 
>>> seems very fast. Then it starts copying from the CD and I quickly 
>>> get the following error:
>>>
>>> "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"
>>>
>>> I click ok and the next error message is:
>>>
>>> "unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to 
>>> try to retrieve it again?".
>>>
>>> So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the 
>>> problem:
>>>
>>> 1) First stop was to suspect the freebsd iso I had burnt was 
>>> suspect. So I re burnt the cd  and the problem persisted. I then 
>>> suspected the ISO I had downloaded was corrupted. So I downloaded it 
>>> again, burnt the cd but the problem still persisted.
>>>
>>> 2) I then suspected the second copy could have come from a cache and 
>>> therefore may have the same problem as the first copy - so I checked 
>>> the md5 signature but it lines up with the original from freebsd.org
>>>
>>> 3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our 
>>> other Netserver boxes - problem still persisted.
>>>
>>> 4)I suspected a drive formatting problem - so I went back into the 
>>> SCSI software, redid the raid drives and reformatted them - problem 
>>> still persisted.
>>>
>>> 5) I suspected another hardware problem - so I pulled out FreeBSD 
>>> 4.9 to see if that would install - and it did install without any 
>>> errors. That sort of discounts there being any hardware problems. It 
>>> points to something specific to freebsd 5.3.
>>>
>>> So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without 
>>> errors but 5.3 will not install.
>>>
>>> I suspect the problem has to do with the initial setting up of the 
>>> file structure - 5.3 is doing this in about one second whereas 4.9 
>>> takes closer to a minute to do this.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts or suggestion?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I believe FreeBSD 5.3 does support using UFS 1 in the install, just
>> check the option in the disklabel program, but if the partitioning also
>> fails then that may not be the problem.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Lino
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>>  
>>
> Hi,
>
> Tried setting the partitions to UFS1 - FreeBSD 5.3 then takes closer 
> to a minute to setup the partitions just like 4.9 - but still get the 
> same error message when it goes to copy the files.
>
> Thanks but did not work.
>
> Lino
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