From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 12:29:30 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 47ECA16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:29:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B021D43D2F for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49EE71FE26 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:29:04 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <20040619072624.GF16261@gargantuan.com> References: <20040619061714.94617.qmail@web53304.mail.yahoo.com> <20040619072624.GF16261@gargantuan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <404F1D30-C1EC-11D8-AF41-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:29:04 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) 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 12:29:30 -0000 On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: >> 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? > I bet it's the devil logo that's screwing him up. We should change it. :-) FWIW, I have managed to get 5.2.1 to install on a LAM test system (ironic?) at work, once I set the CDROM to master on it's own channel (I had to remove the jumpter to install 4.9 because it crashed at boot until I did; 5.2.1 crashed at boot until I set it to the opposite way). I had burned the 2 meg install floppy to a small CD to install it after checking the MD5 sums. It sounds like your install images or floppies were bad. I'd doublecheck the MD5's and if they check out, re-image some floppies (or try putting it on a CD...they tend to be more resilient). -Bart