From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 7:27:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC2B37B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C02D018D9; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B769C18D8; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell Cc: "Christopher W. Aiken" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Same here, I've been using 4.3 since the day it came out, and I've had no > problems at all... Bingo... same here... > > during the install. All total it took me over 8 hours to get 4.3 > > installed over a period of 2 days !! A lot of my hardware was not and > > is not recognized ( mouse, sound, etc. ). I never ever had any > > problems like this with versions 3.5 thru 4.2. I don't know what is > > going on but in my opinion 4.3 just went down hill. I've had real similar problems before... the one time I loaded from a CD - it turned out to BE the CDRom drive. The 2nd time I'd had similar problems was over my DSL line. A bad router at my ISP caused packets to be lost and multiple retries. I ended up reinstalling that system from scratch, same system, no problems. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message