From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jun 23 15:11:58 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA28123 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:11:58 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA28104 ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:11:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA06334; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:12:22 +0100 To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:12:22 +0100 Message-ID: <6332.803945542@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Yes, I'm still making the "snapshot" releases and this is the first post-2.0.5 one to be made available. It fixes a number of problems and adds some new features, some of which are: o SLIP installation didn't ``ifconfig sl0'' properly. o It was not possible to do certain operations "atomically", e.g. just write out fdisk information, or just extract distributions. This can now be done from the "Custom Install" menu. o There is now an "Express Install" menu that leads you through all the necessary steps. o /usr/src/bin is now properly extracted as part of the source distribution. o A couple of panics in the kernel are now fixed. o DOS filesystems are now mounted read-only by default until we figure out what it is about R/W DOS filesystems that clobbers some systems. As always, this snapshot is offered as a complete replacement for the previous release and is aimed at new users installing the system from scratch. Still no "update" mechanism yet, but there are rumors of a project being formed to deal with this soon. If you've any interest in being part of it, then please send mail to hackers@freebsd.org. I'll also be getting involved in the whole update mechanism issue since it's been a gaping hole for far too long now and I'd like to see a solution sooner rather than later. I'm sure that many of our users feel the same way! Please let me know how you fare with this snapshot. I intend to release them every couple of weeks or so, depending on the number and severity of the bugs that are fixed, right up to the release date of FreeBSD 2.1. Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jun 23 15:37:41 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA29177 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:37:41 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA29153 ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:37:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA06469; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:38:08 +0100 To: announce@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:12:22 BST." <6332.803945542@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:38:08 +0100 Message-ID: <6467.803947088@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Yes, I'm still making the "snapshot" releases and this is the first > post-2.0.5 one to be made available. It fixes a number of problems > and adds some new features, some of which are: Sorry to follow up to my own posting, but for those who were wondering WHERE this snapshot was: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-950622-SNAP and ftp://freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-950622-SNAP Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Sat Jun 24 07:22:55 1995 Return-Path: announce-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA09386 for announce-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:22:55 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA09380 ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:22:50 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA25449 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sat, 24 Jun 1995 09:02:05 -0500 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA14197; 24 Jun 95 09:00:43 CDT (Sat) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA14194; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 09:00:42 -0500 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199506241400.JAA14194@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 09:00:42 -0500 (CDT) Cc: announce@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6332.803945542@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 23, 95 11:12:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 103 Sender: announce-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Don't feel too bad about the update thing... OSF/1 still doesn't have update installs working right...