From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 10 20:52:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4CB1065670 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cavac@magicbooks.org) Received: from magic3.magicbooks.org (cl-190.dus-01.de.sixxs.net [IPv6:2a01:198:200:bd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536628FC13 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cavac@magicbooks.org) Received: from mail.magicbooks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by magic3.magicbooks.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6AKq8Y1029304; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:52:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cavac@magicbooks.org) Received: from 85.124.105.180 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cavac) by mail.magicbooks.org with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:52:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5346.85.124.105.180.1247259163.squirrel@mail.magicbooks.org> In-Reply-To: <1246926782.11597.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1246926782.11597.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:52:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "Rene Schickbauer" To: "Ken Smith" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available 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: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:52:55 -0000 > > The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now > available, 8.0-BETA1. Thaaaank you all! That is really wonderfull news! > People with the resources to do so (test machines...) are encouraged to > give 8.0-BETA1 a try. Works on my EEE PC 901 on the secondary drive (32 Gig / Patriot) quite nicely. So good in fact, that i didn't bother to re-install windows as a backup system this time after the little snag i hit last week, see relevant blog entries: In a few weeks time i'll probably get hold of a HP 16 core Intel 8-16 Gig Ram Server with 4 SAS Raid-1 Arrays for probably a few months for testing. I might be able to "accidently" install Beta1 or Beta2 on it (my company is big on windows..). > Debugging support (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still > turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As my EEE PC is currently somewhat slow on compiling... How much would i gain from turning these off? Or would this be a rather bad idea at the moment? > As far as we know > there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything > like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes > caused by ongoing work. There *may* be a bug in sysinstall (called from the running system) in trying to configure an ex-windows partition as a second disk slice. But this time i'm not going to test it until *after* i backed up my system, which will be sometime next week... > 8.0-BETA1--memstick.img > > If you copy that to a USB memory stick newer machines should be able to > boot from it and use it to install from. My prayers have been heard! No more use-once-pollute-earth-forever plastic disks! Thank you, thank you thank you! LLAP & LG Rene -- Overview of my personality: Hackerkey: http://tinyurl.com/nocj7c