Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:31:11 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alessandro de Manzano <adm@unixmania.net>, "Ron 'The InSaNe OnE' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just got 2 different 4.5 disks...... Message-ID: <20020312053111.GA47039@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20020312024755.GH55856@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <200203040030.LAA00492@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020303211832.I153@numachi.com> <15491.34751.990284.622815@witchblade.oneinsane.net> <20020304193050.B22862@libero.sunshine.ale> <20020311102640.GX2845@freebsdmall.com> <20020311113632.GD2845@freebsdmall.com> <20020312024755.GH55856@klapaucius.zer0.org>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:47:55PM -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2002-03-11 03:36 -0800, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:26:40AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > CDs can also benefit from this. Other than that one small change, the > > > discs are indeed identical. > > > > Actually, it was just pointed out to me that this isn't the case. > > Discs 3 and 4 of the Daemonnews CD set do not have RockRidge > > attributes, so the files are MSDOS-compatible 8.3. > > > > The official ISOs on the FTP site (and hence, CDs from the FreeBSD > > Mall, and others) include long filenames. I'm unable to use discs 3 > > and 4 from my Daemonnews distribution because of this (sysinstall can > > not find the packages). In any case, I can't compare the FreeBSD Mall > > CDs to DN because I'm not sure what other changes they made. I can be > > sure however, that the FreeBSD Mall CDs differ from the official ISOs > > on the FTP site only by the addition of Chapter 2 of the Handbook and > > an autorun.inf file on disc #1 (discs 2 - 4 are completely identical, > > as verified by md5). > > The Daemon News discs are made from the official ISOs, with no changes. > However, the disc producer used a nonstandard method to make discs > three and four, which resulted in the packages being named in 8.3 DOS- > style filenames. Daemon News is replacing those two discs upon request > from those who have purchased the set. We will not use that disc > producer in the future. Yea, I got one of these. They also screwed up the package contents. On disk 4, The disk I just checked, I found a bunch of packages that are zero length. Find the business card of the company that pressed these CD's and burn it lest you, by accident, you use them again. How do I get my replacement CD's? Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.5 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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