From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 05:31:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB63037B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F14543FAF for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4HCTjEB025738; Sat, 17 May 2003 14:29:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4HCTQ9c025737; Sat, 17 May 2003 14:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:29:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20030517122926.GA25711@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated 5.1 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:31:07 -0000 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:23:26PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > As many have noticed, 5.1-BETA install and CDROM bits have been > available from the ftp sites for ia32, pc98, and sparc64 for a little > while now. The release engineering team had originally intended to give > a formal announcement of these, but various delays got in the way and > the announcement more-or-less fell by the wayside. You'll also note > that there still isn't an Alpha build, though David O'Brien, Wilko > Bulte, and Ruslan Ermilov have been working furiously to correct this. Well.. today I have for the first time seen a 5.1-BETA build complete without errors. It even installs from CD, but something is fubared in sysinstall (it appears to me). Every Extracting fails, in the sense that sysinstall extracts all the stuff, and then reports an error. If you boneheadedly ignore all these failure messages you end up with a systems that appears to have installed fine, and seems to work fine too. At least that is what my brief testing on the AlphaStation 500 showed. I am uploading the build as-is to freefall, if someone could push them over to ftp-master? I know this by no means a clean build, but I would like to know sooner rather than later what other Alpha models do as far as installing goes. And specifically floppy/ftp installs. I do not have the time to test all that stuff, let alone all the hardware needed. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte