From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 4:44:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43EE014E18 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA09384; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:44:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupt 3.3 CDROMs shipped In-Reply-To: <33658.940493841@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Seems that Walnut Creek shipped a batch of 3.3 packages that have a bad > > disk 1. In my case, they wouldn't boot and couldn't install at all. WC > > was aware of the problem and shipped me a replacement right away. > > Let me guess, you have an ATAPI CDROM drive, from which you couldn't > boot the CDROM? And you haven't read the 3.3-RELEASE Errata? Actually, it does boot about 1 time in 10. > If this is the case, please stop spreading partially accurate but > misleading information. "Corrupt" isn't a good choice of words. Is that > the word Walnut Creek used? The exact words were "We had a spindle of discs that got screwed up during replication." Corrupt sounds like a pretty good synopsis to me. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message