From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 19:11:44 2003 Return-Path: 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 0176A16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C35E43FE5 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 13788 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Nov 2003 03:11:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 27 Nov 2003 03:11:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3FC56B37.7050609@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:10:47 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <3FC4C3DC.9040208@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3FC4C3DC.9040208@freebsd.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070709000007070807000306" Subject: Re: Announcing 5.2-BETA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:11:44 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070709000007070807000306 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To follow up to myself, there likely will not be a package-filled disc1 for the BETA due to it overflowing with the present package list. We will have that resolved for the first RC. Also, attached is the PGP-signed MD5 sums for the i386 and alpha ISOs. Scott Scott Long wrote: > All, > > It's my pleasure to announce the availability of 5.2-BETA ISO images and > ftp install sets for i386 and alpha. Amd64, sparc64, ia64, and pc98 > sets will be available shortly. Please test this as much as possible > and let us know of the problems that you find. Some known problems to > watch out for: > > - Certain SMP systems may fail to boot. Disabling ACPI may work around > this. > - NFS might be unstable in certain situations, though we have not been > able to identify what situations yet. > - Rebuilding ata-raid arrays may cause panics. > > Please see the 5.2 TODO list at > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/todo.html for the list of other > problems and areas that need testing. > > ISO images and ftp install sets are available from ftp.freebsd.org and > its mirrors at /pub/FreeBSD/releases/. If the bits have not > reached your favorite mirror yet, please check the list of alternate > mirrors at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > > Please help us make 5.2 the best FreeBSD release ever! > > Thank you, > > The Release Engineering Team > > --------------070709000007070807000306 Content-Type: text/plain; name="CHECKSUM.MD5.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="CHECKSUM.MD5.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MD5 (5.2-BETA-i386-disc2.iso) = 23b44e0ea7b179308f1ff1d22e665c20 MD5 (5.2-BETA-i386-miniinst.iso) = 59ffb02b0f0ceef26318021daba636e7 MD5 (5.2-BETA-alpha-disc2.iso) = e2528a5f87a9166eff10231f1064dcb1 MD5 (5.2-BETA-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 09d57190ca3a85a4875007ce12f05db4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/xWnWHTr20QF8Xr8RAnBzAJ9NCAcesOLxpKNolNacq+ybg+PRIgCglVF+ 87AoyBwzO3/YTgSNawYIAzw= =GvMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------070709000007070807000306--