From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Oct 30 12:46:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA14794 for announce-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:46:12 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA14775 ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:46:07 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA23630; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:46:00 -0800 To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ** Spang! ** 951026-SNAP updated. Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:46:00 -0800 Message-ID: <23627.815085960@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This is just a short announcement to note that I've just overlayed the most recent snapshot distribution, 951026-SNAP, with a new release from today. Mirrors should "refresh" themselves accordingly in the next day or so. This is NOT A NEW SNAPSHOT. This simply corrects a couple of annoying bugs that were preventing people from making full use of the snapshot in certain situations. This will not require new testing and previous snapshot folk need not worry - if they've already managed to install from the SNAP then they probably didn't suffer from the problems that I just fixed anyway! :-) Bugs fixed: o Atapi boot floppy now assumes it's alone by itself on the second IDE controller - this seems to work a lot better for most folks who were provided with dedicated controllers when they purchased their IDE CDROMS. People with IDE disks on multiple IDE controllers should NOT use this floppy image. Stick with boot.flp and build a custom kernel or something. o The apache WEB server installation makes fewer assumptions about where you'll be putting things. o Installing the secure dist no longer requires that you also install Kerberos in order to get things like telnet to work. o Boot floppy should now support the Adaptec 2940 ULTRA (this was a side-effect more than a bug fix). Still to fix: o sysinstall seems to croak in certain situations if you run it after the system is installed. o The FTP retry code still isn't 100% there - apparently it now doesn't handle reselection very well. Sigh. I'm so truly sick of looking at that part of the code that if somebody else wanted to have a look, I wouldn't fight them off! :-) It seems like every time I fix one thing, I break something else. o The media selection screen protects itself from re-entry in some situations when you'd really like it to be allowed. Whoops! o Using more than one FreeBSD "slice" can cause problems. Thanks for all the feedback so far. It's been invaluable! Jordan P.S. Sorry for bending the rules just a bit and overlaying a previous snapshot without bumping the date, but it was easier this way for what were just a few fairly low-overhead fixes. From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Oct 30 20:14:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA10370 for announce-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 20:14:49 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA10353 ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 20:14:46 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 20:14:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199510310414.UAA10353@freefall.freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD-announce From: Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Welcome to freebsd-questions Reply-To: Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk -- Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! 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From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Oct 31 02:24:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA15674 for announce-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 02:24:02 -0800 Received: from maroon.tc.umn.edu (root@maroon.tc.umn.edu [128.101.118.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA15662 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 02:23:56 -0800 Received: from x63-40.finop.umn.edu by maroon.tc.umn.edu; Tue, 31 Oct 95 04:23:10 -0600 From: "Jon Nelson" To: Majordomo@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-announce@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome to freebsd-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: POPmail/Lab 1.0.4 Message-Id: <3095f90e65fa002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 04:23:12 -0600 Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk unsubscribe freebsd-questions FreeBSD-announce end From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Nov 2 11:39:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA12833 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:39:03 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12702 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:33:49 -0800 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA00835; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 21:13:00 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA01455; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 21:12:53 +0200 Message-Id: <199511021912.VAA01455@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: announce@freebsd.org, jmz@obs.besacon.fr, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, peter@jhome.dialix.com, joerg@uriah.heep.sax.de, micke@dynas.se, yves@atcmp.nl cc: freebsd-foreign-secure@internat.freebsd.org Subject: The International CTM has had a Brain Haemorrage. Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 21:12:53 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The international CTM delta-generator has stpped producing deltas. I have done major surgery, and it will now, as its next delta produce a "from-nothing" starter kit. Many apologies for the LARGE mail item you are about to receive... M I owe you all a beer ]:-> -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Nov 2 13:47:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA17349 for announce-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:47:09 -0800 Received: from mailout1.h1.usa.pipeline.com (data1.h1.usa.pipeline.com [38.8.56.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA17338 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:47:05 -0800 Received: from by mailout1.h1.usa.pipeline.com (8.6.9/2.1-PSINet/Pipeline) id VAA19340; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 21:44:49 GMT Received: by (5.0/8.6.9) id AA02044 for announce@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:43:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:43:59 -0500 Message-Id: <9511022143.AA02044@> To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: Subscribe From: rowley@usa.pipeline.com (Betty M. 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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 22:13:14 -0800 Message-ID: <561.815551994@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-announce@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As part of my ongoing efforts to see how many times I can release "the last pre-2.1 snapshot" and still get away with it, I'm releasing another snapshot! :-) I won't say that this truly is the last SNAP since I'll then only invite the lightning to strike, but I can say that it's very very unlikely that I'll be releasing another one due to simple time pressures, if no other reason. 2.1 is just days away now, and I doubt that it will be necessary to release another snapshot in between now and the final build. I am releasing this snapshot for multiple reasons: 1. To incorporate my changes based on all the feedback and bug reports I received for the previous snapshot's installation. 2. To incorporate the latest XFree86 release (3.1.2-S) with security enhancements. There may be more fairly minor changes here before 2.1 is put on CD, but this is basically what will be shipping. 3. To get feedback on the new "Novice Install" I split out of the Express installation (which now truly *is* an express installation). 4. To give folks something a little less buggy to load on new systems while they're waiting for 2.1 to come out. 5. To fold in the latest versions of the FreeBSD Handbook, updated for 2.1. 6. To correct some slight whiffy english in the online help. 7. To go back to the previous approach of just uncommenting the ATAPI and wcd0 entries in GENERIC for building atapi.flp. The idea of commenting out the wd2 and wd3 entries in an effort to make things better seems to have only made them worse in the last SNAP. If this atapi.flp image works for you, great! If not, I'm afraid that it's far too late to do anything about at this stage so any failure reports will be simply filed for post-2.1 analysis. Sorry IDE CDROM hackers, but you had your chance! 8. Because I felt like it. What still remains to be done for 2.1-RELEASE: 1. I need to bring the new commerce distribution (which is now completed) off my own machine and into the release distribution. This SNAP still points to the 2.0.5 commercial dist. I'll probably also add a submenu for the commercial distributions so that you don't have to load all of the commercial demos to get just one of them. 2. Unless I get substantial input on this in the next couple of days, the "experimental" distribution will remain unchanged for 2.1. I got a grand total of zero contributions for this in response to my last solicitation for such contributions, so I guess there aren't any new experimental bits! I may put a compressed copy of the 2.2-CURRENT source tree on the CD for the Bold Adventurers among us, but that's still under consideration. 3. Any other truly critical things people may point out to me in the next few days (hopefully none). The change deltas are, at least, getting significantly smaller and smaller between each SNAP, so we must be doing something right! :-) Available from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951104-SNAP ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951104-SNAP And our various mirrors once they pick it up. Thanks, as always, to the many testers who provided such valuable comments and feedback for the previous SNAP. I've done my best to address all of your concerns in this snapshot, but if there's something you see that still needs work then please, by all means report it to me! Regards, Jordan