Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:52:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "Rene Schickbauer" <cavac@magicbooks.org> To: "Ken Smith" <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <5346.85.124.105.180.1247259163.squirrel@mail.magicbooks.org> In-Reply-To: <1246926782.11597.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1246926782.11597.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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> > The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now > available, 8.0-BETA1. Thaaaank you all! That is really wonderfull news! > People with the resources to do so (test machines...) are encouraged to > give 8.0-BETA1 a try. Works on my EEE PC 901 on the secondary drive (32 Gig / Patriot) quite nicely. So good in fact, that i didn't bother to re-install windows as a backup system this time after the little snag i hit last week, see relevant blog entries: <http://www.magicbooks.org/cms/index.php?catid=12&blogid=1>; In a few weeks time i'll probably get hold of a HP 16 core Intel 8-16 Gig Ram Server with 4 SAS Raid-1 Arrays for probably a few months for testing. I might be able to "accidently" install Beta1 or Beta2 on it (my company is big on windows..). > Debugging support (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still > turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As my EEE PC is currently somewhat slow on compiling... How much would i gain from turning these off? Or would this be a rather bad idea at the moment? > As far as we know > there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything > like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes > caused by ongoing work. There *may* be a bug in sysinstall (called from the running system) in trying to configure an ex-windows partition as a second disk slice. But this time i'm not going to test it until *after* i backed up my system, which will be sometime next week... > 8.0-BETA1-<arch>-memstick.img > > If you copy that to a USB memory stick newer machines should be able to > boot from it and use it to install from. My prayers have been heard! No more use-once-pollute-earth-forever plastic disks! Thank you, thank you thank you! LLAP & LG Rene -- Overview of my personality: Hackerkey: http://tinyurl.com/nocj7c
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