From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 02:02:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0E916A403 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 02:02:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz (cantva.canterbury.ac.nz [132.181.2.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A5343D48 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 02:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X27 #31178) id <01M2GC3FGN7K9W49VN@it.canterbury.ac.nz> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 14:00:28 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([222.155.13.229]) by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X27 #31178) with ESMTPA id <01M2GC5B7JBY9UTZ2E@it.canterbury.ac.nz> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 14:02:00 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:01:59 +1200 From: Andrew Turner To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <4467E117.8070301@fubar.geek.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060425) Subject: BSDInstaller snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 02:02:05 -0000 I am pleased to announce the third public beta of the BSDInstaller on FreeBSD. Major changes in this release are: - Lua and required libraries are now installed from packages - Allow the installation of kernels other than GENERIC The ISO image is available from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/bsdinstaller/7.0-20060512-BSDINSTALLER-i386-disc1.iso or your local mirror. As with the previous Beta release there are three virtual consoles available: * ttyv0: The front end * ttyv1: The back end * ttyv2: A standard login screen to login as root with no password