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

[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 think?
>

I bet it's the devil logo that's screwing him up.  We should change it.

:-)

FWIW, I have managed to get 5.2.1 to install on a LAM test system 
(ironic?) at work, once I set the CDROM to master on it's own channel 
(I had to remove the jumpter to install 4.9 because it crashed at boot 
until I did; 5.2.1 crashed at boot until I set it to the opposite way). 
I had burned the 2 meg install floppy to a small CD to install it after 
checking the MD5 sums.

It sounds like your install images or floppies were bad.  I'd 
doublecheck the MD5's and if they check out, re-image some floppies (or 
try putting it on a CD...they tend to be more resilient).

-Bart