From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Jul 25 11:52:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FD937B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731EE43E67 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19224 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 18:52:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Jul 2002 18:52:42 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6PIqfuR040048; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:52:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:52:51 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Chris Coleman Subject: Re: Update for 4.6.1 issues Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Jul-2002 Chris Coleman wrote: >> - weird install errors from CD on 4.6? >> - I might be able to test RC2 for this (not sure if I can do an >> install on the machine though) > > This particular error threw us for a loop for a while till we determined > it was a driver error. We sent out replacement CDs and they still didn't > work. ;-) > > It appears to happen at exactly the same point during the install process > for everyone, about 1/4 of the way through extracting files from the /bin > distro. From there is just locks up and the CD nolonger does > anything. Replacing the CD drive has been the only workaround so far. Can you verify if these various drives use the same manufacturer and/or did 4.5 work ok on these machines? The one I had here 4.5 worked ok just 4.6 died. Also, if you have a machine available that this is reproducible on, can you see if 4.6.1-RC2 images have the same problem? Thanks tons for the confirm. > -Chris -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message