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

[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 an extremely fast rate.
>
> ...

Sounds to me like your install media is bad.  Ensure the md5 checksums of
the .flp files you downloaded match those in the CHECKSUM.MD5 file in the
FTP folder you downloaded them from.  If they match, try imaging the .flp
files onto different floppies.

--
Danny