From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 07:27:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE23B16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:27:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (rrcs-se-24-73-171-238.biz.rr.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FAF43D2D for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id 2470F72C; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:27:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 863BD5D9; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:26:24 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: Joe Schmoe Message-ID: <20040619072624.GF16261@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Schmoe , questions@freebsd.org References: <20040619061714.94617.qmail@web53304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040619061714.94617.qmail@web53304.mail.yahoo.com> X-WWW-Site: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-PGP-Public-Key: $X-WWW-Site/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Home-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Home-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Home-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Home-Address3: United States of America X-Good-Question-Guide: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Netiquette-Guidelines: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:27:24 -0000 --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: >=20 > A line that starts with: spec_getpages >=20 > A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager >=20 > One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell > which) >=20 > One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure >=20 > One of the lines contains the word: sysinstall >=20 > And that's that. This happens _no matter what > machine_ I try to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on - and as > you can see, I tried it on several very different > machines. I tried disabling things like USB, etc., to > no avail. Whenever I have ever had trouble like this when installing from floppies, it has always, without fail, been the fault of the floppy disk itself. Try writing the .flp out to a fresh floppy and see if you get any further along. > So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any > time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any > hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke > release ? That's a tad caustic, don't you think? --=20 Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=3D&%C=3D\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E