From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 16: 3: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ntl.com (pc3-farn1-3-cust4.gfd.cable.ntl.com [213.107.74.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADC737B406 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bell.lan.palfreman.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ntl.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5IN25fP022087; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:02:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from localhost (william@localhost) by bell.lan.palfreman.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5IN25xD022084; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:02:05 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: bell.lan.palfreman.com: william owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:02:05 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman X-X-Sender: william@bell.lan.palfreman.com To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Fred Clift , John Prince Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release In-Reply-To: <20020618215704779.AAA649@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Message-ID: <20020618233054.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > One thing that you are missing here is that the majority of people > that are running STABLE code are not installing brand-new systems > from CD ISO images. Hmm, interesting I had a hard disk blowout between 4.6RC (on -STABLE) and 4.6 Release. Having the usual chicken & egg problem on this floppyless machine I had to do a quick install of 4.5 to download the 4.6-mini iso and burn it onto a CD, then wiping, putting down the final partitions and installing 4.6. Earlier 4.5 installed fine, but 4.6 panicked partway through the install (extracting bin?). I didn't think anything of it, just assumed the CD was faulty and installed off the net instead. That was using a Freecom cheapo IDE CDRW (8x4x24?) from this January. > For a substantial proportion of people that run FreeBSD, the new > stuff comes in the form of full releases on CDROM. (which accounts > to a great extent for why so many people were asking "where's 4.6" > recently after the release date slipped a couple of times.) > > It seems to me that the majority of people who recently encountered > at least the CDROM problems were doing first-time installs from CD. That's it. Mine didn't work. It is very unusual for me to install off a CD, but on this one time it crapped out once it started to do big bulk data transfers for the main extraction. I don't think I'd have ever noticed were it not for this thread. Does this mean there are likely to be problems burning CD-R discs with burncd? Its just I thought I had a bad batch of CDs, what with virtually all the CDs I made after a couple of months ago while tracking 4.5-STABLE being no good. Regards, Bill. -- W. Palfreman. http://www.palfreman.com/william/ Tel: 0771 355 0354 PGP ftp://ftp.palfreman.com/pub/wfpkey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message