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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0.2: Random Disk Errors on Upgrade (with Workaround) Date: 12 Feb 1994 17:35:03 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Feb12173503@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <CEB.94Feb11171729@netcom8.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: ceb@netcom8.netcom.com's message of Sat, 12 Feb 1994 01:17:25 GMT In article <CEB.94Feb11171729@netcom8.netcom.com> ceb@netcom8.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) writes: I recently updated an extremely reliable FreeBSD 1.0 Gamma box to 1.0.2. I had heard so many bad things about the patch scripts I didn't even try them. But even starting over, I ran into a problem. I think that's a little unfair, and being more open-minded would have probably saved you some grief! :-) [I've tried mailing things to Freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, but never hear anything back.] We don't always reply to freebsd-bugs since things sent there are for filing and fixing (which, if you subscribe to freebsd-commit, you hopefully will eventually see! :-). If you want _interactive_ response, try freebsd-questions! If I just stick in the new floppies, and run through the setup, it works, but when it comes time to unpack the distribution files, I got random unpacking errors doing cat /usr/dist/bin_tgz* | tar xvfz -. FreeBSD was the only partition on the SCSI disk, with a 1542 controller. Have you considered that maybe you have some bad floppies? 99.9% of the time when we get reports like this, that's exactly what's happened! People buy these $3.99 per 50 boxes of serbo-croatian floppies and then expect them all to work flawlessly. Sheesh.. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.