From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Oct 22 02:04:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA00214 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:04:57 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA00209 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:04:53 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA06656 for announce@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:04:39 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:04:39 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199510220904.CAA06656@time.cdrom.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: New installation floppies available. Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In my haste to fix the ppp installation problems, I rushed in some other fixes that broke the root floppy extract. I backed out my previous floppy image update because of this, but that left the ppp installation broken. I've now fixed (I hope!) both problems and put new images up on ftp.freebsd.org. The dates are Oct 22 02:04 (FYI). Thanks! Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Oct 22 05:00:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA04539 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 05:00:43 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA04521 ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 05:00:38 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id FAA22012; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 05:00:22 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 05:00:22 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199510221200.FAA22012@time.cdrom.com> To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: package installer menu in new sysinstall Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Please stay away from it for now.. It's got some problems that I'm working on and probably will NOT work in the FTP installation scenarios that most of you are using, sorry about that! I should have it fixed tonite, it's just that other problems (which are now also fixed) sort of kept me away from the package extraction menu until now.. Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Oct 22 16:35:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA12212 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:35:36 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA12189 ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:35:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA07915; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:35:26 -0700 To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Latest 2.1.0-951020-SNAP floppies now available. Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:35:26 -0700 Message-ID: <7913.814404926@time.cdrom.com> From: Charlie & Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951020-SNAP/floppies These fix many reported problems.. Thanks for the feedback, folks, and please keep it coming! Every bug fixed now is one less we'll have for 2.1. Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 27 11:22:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA10042 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:22:19 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA10015 ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:22:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10810; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:21:32 -0700 To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: I forgot to mention (re: 2.1.0-951026-SNAP). Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:21:32 -0700 Message-ID: <10808.814818092@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This snapshot also tries again to address the IDE CDROM and 4MB issues (the features that wouldn't die! :). Please send me ANY success/fail reports you may have with either 4MB configurations or the atapi.flp boot image with IDE CDROM drives. Thank you! Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 27 11:24:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA10238 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:24:04 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA10211 ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:23:59 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10820; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:23:15 -0700 To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Come and get it! 2.1.0-951026-SNAP is released! Reply-to: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:23:15 -0700 Message-ID: <10818.814818195@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I know I said that the previous snapshot would be the last one before 2.1, but the best laid plans and all that.. This snapshot incorporates 6 days worth of some of the most frenetic development I can remember in recent history. MANY MANY problems were fixed, some additional features were added and extensive updates to the documentation were made. Forget what I said about the last snapshot being the release candidate - THIS is the release candidate! :-) Some of the fixes from this snapshot include: o All /etc/sysconfig information now written correctly. o WEB server option now works properly. o The package installation menu now works. o All the auto-installation instrumentation (installation by config file) now works. It's possible to install everything from start to finish on a new system in a fully-automated fashion (if you install a lot of systems, this is a big help). o You may now read the HTML Handbook and FAQ documents directly from the boot floppy after installation (as well as visit any other WEB site). o Failure to create a /usr is no longer an error, just a warning. o The matcd driver was shrunk down some more, *possibly* resulting in a return to 4MB operation (please test this). o The latest ATAPI CDROM changes were merged in and another atapi.flp boot image generated. Again, please test. And many many other things, far too numerous to mention. I'm very grateful to all of those who took time out from their busy schedules to install and comment on the last snapshot. If I can prevail on all of you to do so just one more time, the final 2.1 release will surely be the better for it. Things are actually solid enough at this stage that I don't expect the actual 2.1 release to be functionally much different than this snapshot. The commercial and experimental distributions still need to be updated (this snapshot references the 2.0.5 ones) and now that I'm basically finished with just trying to make all of this work, I'll be attending to this over the next couple of days (apologies to all of our friends in the commercial software community who have been waiting patiently for me to get back to them). Installation feedback, as always, to me please.. Also, if you find something that looks to be more "generally" wrong (e.g. not a simple side-effect of the installation itself) then I'm not actually the best person to send it to - please address all such comments to the stable@freebsd.org mailing list, where they may receive wider feedback (I'm on this mailing list too, so if something looks like it's mine I'll field it). Thank you! Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 27 17:09:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA00693 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:09:22 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA00686 ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:09:20 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA03189; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:09:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510280009.RAA03189@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Come and get it! 2.1.0-951026-SNAP is released! To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: announce@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <10818.814818195@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 27, 95 11:23:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 204 Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > the documentation were made. Forget what I said about the last > snapshot being the release candidate - THIS is the release candidate! > :-) Oh it was a candidate alright, but nobody voted for it... From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 27 20:01:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA06856 for announce-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 20:01:03 -0700 Received: from minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA06816 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:59:50 -0700 Received: (warren@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.3) id MAA15255; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:58:05 +1000 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:58:05 +1000 From: warren@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-Id: <199510280258.MAA15255@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> To: freebsd-announce@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Monthly Reminder: BSD Information Archive on Minnie Sender: owner-announce@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Monthly Reminder: *BSD Information Archive on Minnie From: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-ID: Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Organization: ADFA, Canberra, Australia Summary: Where to get information about BSD Keywords: bsd, news, archive, ftp, telnet, WWW Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.160] has a publically available cache of information on BSD4.x and BSD-related systems, especially the free flavours of BSD. Web Documents ------------- All of the BSD-related information on minnie can be accessed through the Web at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/BSD-info/BSD.html. There are many hotlinks to the FreeBSD and NetBSD web pages. Minnie has web pages with: + Interactive access to a Usenet News archive on BSD. + A hyperlinked version of the FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel source code. Bsdnews ------- Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the Usenet news on BSD, taken from several newsgroups. This archive can be accessed either via telnet or through the WorldWide Web. You can do two things: + search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern + retrieve particular articles To do this by telnet, telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. To do this through the Web, connect to the Web URL above and follow the link to the News Web interface page. Ftp --- Minnie has the following BSD-related stuff available by anonymous ftp: + FreeBSD - FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE, and some previous versions. + bsdnews - The Usenet news about *BSD, from June 1992 onwards. + daemons - Gif images of the BSD Daemons. These are copyright by Marshall Kirk McKusick. + phillip - NFS mount of some other *BSD stuff, which is maintained by Phillip Musumeci here at ADFA. + 4.4BSD-Lite - The entire source tree for 4.4BSD-Lite. + net2 - The kernel source tree for the Net/2 distribution. Please ftp from a site closer to you, if there is one. Australia has a single link to the Internet, and it's usually saturated. Thanks! ---- Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au From owner-freebsd-announce Sat Oct 28 15:21:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA04014 for announce-outgoing; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:21:33 -0700 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04006 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:21:27 -0700 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA07005; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 17:21:06 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 17:21:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: All new web pages! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Go check out the all new FreeBSD WWW pages at http://www.freebsd.org/. If you had any bookmarks to specific places in the old pages, they probably don't work anymore. Sorry, but that is progress. ;) Comments and suggestions are appreciated. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============