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Subject: ** Spang! ** 951026-SNAP updated.
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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This is just a short announcement to note that I've just overlayed the
most recent snapshot distribution, 951026-SNAP, with a new release
from today. Mirrors should "refresh" themselves accordingly in the
next day or so.
This is NOT A NEW SNAPSHOT. This simply corrects a couple of annoying
bugs that were preventing people from making full use of the snapshot
in certain situations. This will not require new testing and previous
snapshot folk need not worry - if they've already managed to install
from the SNAP then they probably didn't suffer from the problems that
I just fixed anyway! :-)
Bugs fixed:
o Atapi boot floppy now assumes it's alone by itself on the second
IDE controller - this seems to work a lot better for most folks
who were provided with dedicated controllers when they purchased
their IDE CDROMS. People with IDE disks on multiple IDE
controllers should NOT use this floppy image. Stick with boot.flp
and build a custom kernel or something.
o The apache WEB server installation makes fewer assumptions about
where you'll be putting things.
o Installing the secure dist no longer requires that you also
install Kerberos in order to get things like telnet to work.
o Boot floppy should now support the Adaptec 2940 ULTRA (this was
a side-effect more than a bug fix).
Still to fix:
o sysinstall seems to croak in certain situations if you run it
after the system is installed.
o The FTP retry code still isn't 100% there - apparently it
now doesn't handle reselection very well. Sigh. I'm so truly
sick of looking at that part of the code that if somebody else
wanted to have a look, I wouldn't fight them off! :-) It seems
like every time I fix one thing, I break something else.
o The media selection screen protects itself from re-entry in some
situations when you'd really like it to be allowed. Whoops!
o Using more than one FreeBSD "slice" can cause problems.
Thanks for all the feedback so far. It's been invaluable!
Jordan
P.S. Sorry for bending the rules just a bit and overlaying a previous
snapshot without bumping the date, but it was easier this way for what
were just a few fairly low-overhead fixes.
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Subject: 2.1.0-951104-SNAP is now available.
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As part of my ongoing efforts to see how many times I can release "the
last pre-2.1 snapshot" and still get away with it, I'm releasing
another snapshot! :-)
I won't say that this truly is the last SNAP since I'll then only
invite the lightning to strike, but I can say that it's very very
unlikely that I'll be releasing another one due to simple time
pressures, if no other reason. 2.1 is just days away now, and I doubt
that it will be necessary to release another snapshot in between now
and the final build.
I am releasing this snapshot for multiple reasons:
1. To incorporate my changes based on all the feedback and bug reports
I received for the previous snapshot's installation.
2. To incorporate the latest XFree86 release (3.1.2-S) with security
enhancements. There may be more fairly minor changes here before 2.1
is put on CD, but this is basically what will be shipping.
3. To get feedback on the new "Novice Install" I split out of the Express
installation (which now truly *is* an express installation).
4. To give folks something a little less buggy to load on new systems
while they're waiting for 2.1 to come out.
5. To fold in the latest versions of the FreeBSD Handbook, updated for 2.1.
6. To correct some slight whiffy english in the online help.
7. To go back to the previous approach of just uncommenting the ATAPI and
wcd0 entries in GENERIC for building atapi.flp. The idea of commenting
out the wd2 and wd3 entries in an effort to make things better seems to
have only made them worse in the last SNAP. If this atapi.flp image
works for you, great! If not, I'm afraid that it's far too late to do
anything about at this stage so any failure reports will be simply filed
for post-2.1 analysis. Sorry IDE CDROM hackers, but you had your chance!
8. Because I felt like it.
What still remains to be done for 2.1-RELEASE:
1. I need to bring the new commerce distribution (which is now completed)
off my own machine and into the release distribution. This SNAP still
points to the 2.0.5 commercial dist. I'll probably also add a submenu
for the commercial distributions so that you don't have to load all of
the commercial demos to get just one of them.
2. Unless I get substantial input on this in the next couple of days, the
"experimental" distribution will remain unchanged for 2.1. I got a
grand total of zero contributions for this in response to my last
solicitation for such contributions, so I guess there aren't any new
experimental bits! I may put a compressed copy of the 2.2-CURRENT
source tree on the CD for the Bold Adventurers among us, but that's
still under consideration.
3. Any other truly critical things people may point out to me in the next
few days (hopefully none).
The change deltas are, at least, getting significantly smaller and
smaller between each SNAP, so we must be doing something right! :-)
Available from:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951104-SNAP
ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951104-SNAP
And our various mirrors once they pick it up.
Thanks, as always, to the many testers who provided such valuable
comments and feedback for the previous SNAP. I've done my best to
address all of your concerns in this snapshot, but if there's
something you see that still needs work then please, by all means
report it to me!
Regards,
Jordan