From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Oct 14 15:51:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077B837B401; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ithildin.daemonnews.org (ithildin.daemonnews.org [204.152.186.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD2543E8A; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@daemonnews.org) Received: by ithildin.daemonnews.org (Postfix, from userid 3002) id ECED617BE90; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ithildin.daemonnews.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E7B17BCF8; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: problem with 4.7 iso (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200210142246.g9EMkfCb054787@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Message-ID: <20021014154654.S33461-100000@ithildin.daemonnews.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I downloaded and burned the ISOs and tested it on two machines as well without problems. However,I am, as I am sure you understand, a bit cautions about sending them to press with people saying they are having problems. I tested them on a Pentium 133 and a Dual Athlon 1500+. Maybe it's a problem on older machines? Anyone else run into anything? -Chris On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I picked up the 4.7 ISO ftp ftp2.freebsd.org, I believe, and have had no > problems (installed on at least a half dozen machines - running it as I > type, AAMOF). > > I haven't tried the mini ISO yet. > > Anybody bother checking to check the MD5s? I'm gonna guess someone is > downloading them with ASCII, rather than binary ftp. > > -Brian > > > We have been getting reports of problems with the FreeBSD 4.7 Release > > ISOs, such as the ones included below. Are these known issues? Are new > > ISO images going to be created or is this problem small enough to not > > require new ISOs and such. > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > To: freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) > > > Copies to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: problem with 4.7 iso > > > From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) > > > Date sent: 14 Oct 2002 12:25:31 -0700 > > > > > > > freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) writes: > > > > > > > > > Not sure if this is the group to report this. I have downloaded > > > > > the iso's from 4.2 on, without a problem until this. > > > > > > > > Correct group. If nobody helps here, then you can usually ask on > > > > about 4.x on freebsd-stable without getting complaints (say you asked > > > > here first). But in this case it's highly likely that the problem's > > > > at your end. > > > > > > > > > > After composing the above, I downloaded the mini 4.7 iso, burnt a disk > , > > > > > and once again the boot process stops at text=0x2833b1 ! > > > > > > > If it is any comfort, I do have problems with the 4.7 ISOs also. I have > > > downloaded and burned ISOs from 4.2 through 4.6.2 with no problems. I > > > have downloaded 3 copies of 4.7 from different sites, and my Nero CD > > > burning program gives the same error message on all 3. The resulting > > > CDs are not bootable, and the kernel can not be read when the CDs are > > > used as data disks. As a check I downloaded another copy of 4.6.2, > > > and the resulting CD was perfect. > > > Kjell > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > Gregory S. Sutter mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org > > Cheap Technologist http://daemonnews.org/ > > Daemon News, Inc. http://BSDmall.com/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message