Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:35:00 -0600 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated 5.1 status Message-ID: <3EC664B4.8070007@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> <20030517122926.GA25711@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030517123754.GA25796@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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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 <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 > > > Once they are done uploading of course.. > Can you send me the patch? I have an XP1000 that is ready to try it. Scott
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