From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 12:42:13 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 4CA0F37B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C3F43FBD for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:42:12 -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 h4HJg9EB027585; Sat, 17 May 2003 21:42:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4HJg8sV027584; Sat, 17 May 2003 21:42:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 21:42:08 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20030517194208.GA27565@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> <20030517122926.GA25711@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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 19:42:13 -0000 On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:37:54PM +0200, 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.. They are done. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte