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July 2, 2008 at 07:27 AM
dumphrey

Weird install issue with FreeBSD

by dumphrey . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

I downloaded and burnt to cd the latest FreeBSD (7). After burning the cds, I put number one into the drive of my trusty test computer (850 p3, 512 ram, 20 Gb HD). It currently has PCBSD installed on it, using a disk downloaded on the same computer, and burnt to the same batch/type of cd using the same program (imageburn).
It boots into the BSD setup just fine, but errors out repetedly when trying to copy the base system to the drive (-1 byte of XXXXXXX copied).
The BSD cd works just fine to install to a VM on my laptop, so I am assuming its in either the HD or cdrom of the test computer.
Any suggestions? I am currently looking for another cdrom to try, and have dban running on the HD to “zero” it out…

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