Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:38:54 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Bo Xiao <boxiao@cisco.com>, freebsd-users@cisco.com, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6 release and snapshots Message-ID: <200206131738.g5DHcsUv010220@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200206131417.g5DEHnH01397@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> References: <200206131417.g5DEHnH01397@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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--==_Exmh_-866874566P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Brian J. McGovern" wrote: > > (Even when I worked at Cisco, I never knew which of the internal mailing > > lists could be posted to from outside, so Brian or Bo might need to > > forward this. "Hi" to everyone who remembers me.) > > Depends on the configuration in the mailer ;) Oh. :-) > > I know that murray had (is having) some problems getting the ISO images > > to ftp-master intact. The details make for a long, rambling saga that I > > won't bore people with...they involve a lack of bandwidth and CDRs that > > won't burn correctly. :-( I don't know if these problems could have > > affected the mini-ISO...my impression was "not". > > Well, I'll be happy to open my resources up to Murray if I have anything that > can help him out. Thanks. In this case, the problem is being able to get lots of bits (the ISO images) from murray's workstation at home onto ftp-master. He's kind of bandwidth-challenged, so the plan was to burn the data to CDR for someone else to physically take to the co-lo facility where the FreeBSD cluster sits, to upload there, while murray went down to USENIX. Unfortunately, Murphy was hard at work the past 48 hours, and most of the MD5 checksums of the CDRs failed (despite having two copies of each ISO image). I imagine that murray is going to try this again. I'm told that the FTP install directory arrived intact, as well as all the packages. Brian already knows this, but for the benefit of others: A FreeBSD release isn't official until a PGP-signed announcement from one of the release engineers is posted to freebsd-announce@. It is theoretically possible (although extremely unlikely) that we might wipe outf all 4.6-related files and start over. So...I don't encourage using the 4.6 bits for any use other than testing, until a release announcement goes out. > > Bruce. > > > > PS. What symptoms of failure did you see with the mini-ISO? > > > > The individual file kits tend to fail on what appears to be the second in the > series, so bin.aa, for instance, seems to extract, but it fails with an error > when trying to read in bin.ab. I don't remember the exact message, but its > something like "Only able to read -1 bytes". If I get a chance today, I'll > recreate it, and post the real error message. Thanks, that'd be helpful. I just did an install to my scratch box from the miniinst ISO. Nothing out of the ordinary (except there was no INDEX file for packages, obviously). Could you also give some info on the disk and CDROM configuration (e.g. SCSI vs. ATA)? Just wondering if this might have something to do with the ata(4) problems that some people have reported. Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_-866874566P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD4DBQE9CNiu2MoxcVugUsMRAoY6AJjPtXIxwvSAlQK9aW4QTVd6cyQcAKDoCbk2 QGYTOCKwIs0YXyfMlZfWTQ== =fT3F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-866874566P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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