Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:29:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated 5.1 status Message-ID: <20030517122926.GA25711@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com>
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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 <foo> 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
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