Bug 19336

Summary: write failure when adding distribution files
Product: Base System Reporter: trevlig <trevlig>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description trevlig 2000-06-16 19:30:01 UTC 
Did a minimum install of version 4.0 stable, added some basic ports like pine, bash & mc, apache (php), linux_base-6.1.

When trying to use XF86Setup i realise that i havent included them and go into /stand/install to add them. 

Download starts normally but when it reaches 24060bytes [every distro i try] it just stops and reports.

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"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 24060 bytes")
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The disks arent full and the connection is stable. I ran fsck to check, tried the same thing in single user mode. But no luck...   Ports work fine when installing and i find it very strange that adding distributions do not.

No other problems on the system, even tried switching NICs (3Com)


Otherwise i find FreeBSD the best Operating System availble for servers =)

Fix: 

reinstall...  ?  :-C   i dont experience the same problem on the box next to it (same installation procedure)
How-To-Repeat: Same problem with Upgrading the system or using /stand/sysinstall after reboot.
Comment 1 nonsolosoft 2000-07-10 20:43:08 UTC 
I've already installed on my PC FreeBSD 2.7, 3.0 and 3.4 successfully without
any troubles.

Now I've recycled an old Pentium 133 with Triton chipset and I'd the same kind of error you had described here.

Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024)

I've bootstrap from boot floppy and mfsroot floppy of version 3.4, I've partitioned the HD and labeled it properly (/ swap /var &
/usr), but during the transfer from CDROM to HD it gives randomly this error (after few chunks).

The CDROM is the same from which I've already installed the same operating system on my running FreeBSD.

Iìve repeated the installation more times with the same bad results.


I was fear that there was something wrong in the bios setting, so I've tried to install on the same troubling PC a Debian Linux
distribution and everything goes right. I've also bootstraped and tested it.
Comment 2 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-25 23:36:09 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Can you reproduce this on more recent releases?
Comment 3 dwmalone freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-09-02 14:23:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Submitter says problem hasn't been seen since.