From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 19 10:58:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A712237B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:58:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBEB43F85 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2JIwpjl048162; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2JIwpom048161; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:51 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra Subject: Re: Alpha 4.8 RC2 -- COME AND GET IT!! Message-ID: <20030319195851.C48087@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030318165640.GA83997@dragon.nuxi.com> <200303190052.h2J0qd0U035726@vashon.polstra.com> <20030319182050.GA92527@dragon.nuxi.com> <15992.46508.848181.114241@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15992.46508.848181.114241@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:23:40PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:23:40PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > David O'Brien writes: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:52:39PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > > Is "4.8-RC2-alpha-miniinst.iso" sufficient for testing the install, > > > > Yes. The miniinst is disc1 minus all the packages. I.e., it is the most > > that one can get of the traditional disc1 from only the output of "make > > release". > > > > Wilko raised some questions about the bootability of this image. > > Wilko: Did you find out if the problem was on your end, or is the > image bad? One needs (needed, I think David fixed it by now?) to run the setcdboot tool on it (setcdboot foo.iso /boot/cdboot will do it). setcdboot is in ports/sysutils. After I did that things booted just fine. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message