On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:15:29AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your > email as of yet. IANAE, but here goes:
For my part -- I just hadn't seen it before this. I'm surprised there aren't more replies too, though. > > Could that be "readln"? Been too long since I saw it. > The typo below makes me assume you're typing from the > view on the the monitor. Bad news is, ev'ry time I've > seen this, it's because of bad media. I've not seen it > for years, though, and then, it was always on floppy > installs, which, I think, are the posterboy for "bad media" > on Google or Wikipedia or summat. It could just be a bad burn. It happens sometimes, even with a good ISO for the disk. Burning again on a different disk might make the difference, if that's the case. > > I'm guessing there's some issue we're both unaware of. Perhaps > someone with a better grok on the situation will post. Alas, I don't know anything more about the situation than you do, I guess. I hope someone else has more information. > > That's good to hear. As I mentioned, hopefully someone else > will have a better clue on this, as I've not had the problem > for years. I've also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows > *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow > or other, despite the fact that you can "see" everything. But > then again, maybe I just don't trust Windows programs ;-) I sympathize. All my FreeBSD CDs have been burned on Debian or FreeBSD. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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