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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:29:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
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:  <20030114102704.A758-100000@femme>
In-Reply-To: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, 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?)).

I just want to point out, POLA really only applies to -STABLE, and we're
talking very specifically about -CURRENT.

IN -CURRENT, substantial changes can be made with little warning, and only
documentation sometimes (most of the time, people give a ***HEADS UP!***
email on this list).

However don;t assume because something is one way in the 4.x branch that
it will be the same in 5.x. If this were the case, we'd have very little
progress.

-Trish


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