Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Jorn Argelo
So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? I'm not going to tell you again that the installation media is bad, because everybody else said that already. But something th

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread j . e . drews
Hello Joe: You may want to look here for advice on installing also. The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ Maybe you should just get CD 1 of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and try installing from that? Kind regards, Jonat

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Michael W. Oliver wrote: On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? That's a tad caustic, don't you

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-06-18T23:17:14-0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > > A line that starts with: spec_getpages > > A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager > > One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell > which) > > One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure > > One of the lines contains the word:

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 18), Joe Schmoe said: > > I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four > (very) different computers today: > > - dell inspiron laptop > - toshiba libretto > - some other toshiba laptop > - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard > SCSI) > > Every single

RE: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Joe Schmoe > > I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four > (very) different computers today: > > Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to > mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most > of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts > spitting out error messages at

FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Schmoe
I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: - dell inspiron laptop - toshiba libretto - some other toshiba laptop - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard SCSI) Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall