FYI: 9.0-RELEASE announced...

[Eugene Grosbein]

14.01.2012 01:05, Eugene Grosbein пишет:
> 13.01.2012 06:54, Ken Smith пишет:
> 
>> If you downloaded the amd64 and/or i386 DVD images before now you
>> might want to check the checksums with the ones posted in the
>> release announcement.  The fix to make sysinstall(8) happy about
>> installing from the DVD images was the *only* change made to the
>> updated images.  The "bad" images were never available via
>> Bittorrent so if you got the images that way you wouldn't have
>> a bad image.
> 
> I've just downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso using
> official torrent tracker linked in original announcement.
> I use "transmission" torrent client running under FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE.
> MD5 of the resulting image does not match:
> 
> MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = b23ef73412bd50ed62ef8613ca1a4199

Sorry for noise, that's right MD5.

> I've removed the torrent and downloaded file and tried again,
> got the same wrong MD5.
> 
> I've tried the image with VirtualBox, virtual machine starts and hangs hard
> at "Checksum verification" stage.

It seems, FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can install as VirtualBox-4.0.10 Guest
using SAS-emulated disk controller only. In IDE or SATA mode it hangs.

Cc'd to Alexander Motin.

Eugene Grosbein