Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:42:25 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com>, Bo Xiao <boxiao@cisco.com>, freebsd-users@cisco.com, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com Subject: Re: 4.6 release and snapshots Message-ID: <200206131842.g5DIgPB00631@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:38:54 PDT." <200206131738.g5DHcsUv010220@intruder.bmah.org>
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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 mailin g > > > 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 er ror > > 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. Ok. The exact error information, which is reproducible is: 1.) On the "main" install screen, one sees: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes)" 2.) On the console screen, one sees: " [all the info on boot, newfs'ing, etc trimmed] /bin/cp /stand/gzip: <fd:0>: invalid stored block lengths bin/date /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: premature end of file " I was able to change the BIOS setting to boot/use the slave DVD burner (slave on secondary controller) to boot/install, rather than the normal CD player (master on secondary controller). Working with 5.0-DP1 and 4.5 works fine with the normal CD drive (master secondary controller), so I'm 95% certain its not the drive itself. However, I'll play with it some more to see. For extra drive info, the boot/FreeBSD Drive is an IDE as master on the primary controller. There is also a CD-RW and hard disk on an Adaptec 7892, but neither are used during the install. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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