Guys,
Have not had much luck installing FreeBSD, despite valiant efforts (or so I'd like to think! =)).
First, had the whole "unable to find device node" or some such error. Did some research, and what solved it for me was to load geom_bsd, geom_mbr, geom_label and then boot.
But now, I'm getting this error, which is far less documented :
Write failure on transfer!
(write -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100%
When comes time to further the install. Not sure what has been installed at that point - sysinstall for sure, but not the ports, I don't think - but I can't progress any further. Just a few details to help you guys :
Asus M4A88T-M
4 GB RAM (Kingston DDR3 1333)
FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 via USB
I am in the process of DD'ing the disk I had hoped to use as a system drive (a 500Gb WD drive) to ensure that it's really clean, but I actually had that error on my very first install. Not sure if it's a 4K drive, but I don't think that matters for the system drive, does it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT : Forgot to mention I already checked the checksums for my USB image.
Have not had much luck installing FreeBSD, despite valiant efforts (or so I'd like to think! =)).
First, had the whole "unable to find device node" or some such error. Did some research, and what solved it for me was to load geom_bsd, geom_mbr, geom_label and then boot.
But now, I'm getting this error, which is far less documented :
Write failure on transfer!
(write -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100%
When comes time to further the install. Not sure what has been installed at that point - sysinstall for sure, but not the ports, I don't think - but I can't progress any further. Just a few details to help you guys :
Asus M4A88T-M
4 GB RAM (Kingston DDR3 1333)
FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 via USB
I am in the process of DD'ing the disk I had hoped to use as a system drive (a 500Gb WD drive) to ensure that it's really clean, but I actually had that error on my very first install. Not sure if it's a 4K drive, but I don't think that matters for the system drive, does it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT : Forgot to mention I already checked the checksums for my USB image.