From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 09:32:55 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 3B5ED37B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A681E43F85 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4HGSrZ31858; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:28:53 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.253.56]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21928; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3EC664B4.8070007@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:35:00 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> <20030517122926.GA25711@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:32:55 -0000 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:29:26PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>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 > > > Once they are done uploading of course.. > Can you send me the patch? I have an XP1000 that is ready to try it. Scott