Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:02:05 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>, John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com> Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release Message-ID: <20020618233054.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> In-Reply-To: <20020618215704779.AAA649@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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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
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