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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:54 -0800
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available 
Message-ID:  <200301131809.h0DI9s1M094455@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> 
References:  <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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If memory serves me right, Andy Farkas wrote:

> > Once again it's my pleasure to announce Release Cadidate 3 of
> > FreeBSD 5.0.
> 
> Perhaps I do things in a non-standard way, but its worked for the last 8
> years from 2.x through to 4.7-stable.....
> 
> Firstly, I download 'floppies' and create the 2 boot disks, kern.flp and
> mgsroot.flp. Then I download 'bin' (now called 'base'!?) to my fileserver.
> 
> Next, I boot the box with 2 the new floppies, and tell sysinstall to use
> 'FTP' to the fileserver URL (ftp://172.22.2.2) and install 'minimal' (in
> other words, just install 'bin' (now called 'base'!? - anyone remember
> the acronym POLA?)).

...which was documented (along with the reason why this change was
made) in the release notes.  :-)

Cheers,

Bruce.



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