Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:01:59 -0800 From: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk@c-67-169-173-160.client.comcast.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-release iso images broken? Message-ID: <20040312230159.2EBD5A7@c-67-169-173-160.client.comcast.net>
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>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:12:37PM -0500, scion+fbsdq@webrelay.net wrote: >> I've been trying to boot up a Compaq 1850. Aside from it hanging >> on booting I noticed that I was booting with 5.2.1-RC, not -release >> So, d/l the latest iso and now the darned machine won't boot from >> the 5.2.1-release cds at all. Doesn't even see them. I've booted >> this machine up on 3 or 4 different linuxen, Fbsd4.9, Solaris 8, >> even openDarwin 7. I've burned several cds of 5.2.1-release-mininst >> but no joy. >> >> So, off to another pc and golly if the cd won't boot there either! >> >> Is there a known problem with the i386 iso images for 5.2.1-release? > >Not that I've heard of. The most likely explanation is that your >download was corrupted, or your CD did not burn correctly. Did you >verify the MD5 hash of the ISO image after you downloaded it, and did >you do the same for the CD you burned? > >Kris How do you do the MD5 hash of a whole CD? Thanks, Brian -- Brian M. Kincaid PGP Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33656401
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