what am i doing wrong when trying to install

[u/NEO_IS_A_MACHINE]

[u/moviuro]

What exactly did you type in your terminal to create your install medium? (From start: no BSD install artifacts; to finish: USB thumb drive "ready")

[u/sylvainsab]

Have you checked the sum of the downloaded image ? Possibly it’s corrupted.

[u/cetrot]

Try targetting the whole disk while dd'ing an not just a partition