From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 13:31:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23372 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23357 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) Received: from kcig1.att.att.com by kcgw1.att.com (AT&T/UPAS) for freebsd.org!freebsd-questions sender homer.att.com!jwb (homer.att.com!jwb); Fri Jul 24 15:30 CDT 1998 Received: from ulysses.homer.att.com (ulysses.homer.att.com [135.205.212.4]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id PAA20776 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:30:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (akiva.homer.att.com [135.205.213.77]) by ulysses.homer.att.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA08577 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by akiva.homer.att.com (4.1) id AA07300; Fri, 24 Jul 98 16:30:11 EDT Message-Id: <9807242030.AA07300@akiva.homer.att.com> Received: from localhost.homer.att.com [127.0.0.1] by akiva; Fri Jul 24 16:30:10 EDT 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 boot floppies updated. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:13:32 PDT." <1259.901242812@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:30:07 -0400 From: "J. W. Ballantine" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HI, I downloaded the new floppies and tried to copy them to disk via dd on a sun4.1.3 system (same way as previously), and received: << Fri Jul 24 16:01:28 1998 >>> fd0: write failed (44 4 0) fd0: bad format And when I tried to start I received a read error. Yes, I did use bin to download , and the length is: 1474560 Jul 24 16:15 boot.flp same as on cdrom. Jim Ballantine ---------- In Response to your message ------------- > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:13:32 -0700 > To: announce@freebsd.org > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Subject: 2.2.7 boot floppies updated. > Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org > > An 11th hour bug in the boot floppies, having to do with the way > XFree86 distributions are chosen, was discovered during final CD > testing. Though this problem is not fatal and can be easily worked > around by either choosing one of the "canned" XFree86 distributions > (X-Developer, X-User, etc) or by installing XFree86 by hand, it was > deemed annoying enough to re-roll the boot floppies and update them on > ftp.freebsd.org. If you have grabbed the 2.2.7 boot floppies earlier, > you may wish to get them again. Those getting 2.2.7 on CD will never > see this problem and this is only of concern to the folks who install > over the net. > > Just FYI! > > - Jordan > > This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. > The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, > important events and project milestones. > See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message