From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 31 04:36:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAE5106566B for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B988FC12 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-156-252.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.252]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0V4ab0S084267 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:06:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:06:17 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4635696.WB4jkQphGq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.707 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Ian Smith , Ken Smith Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:36:45 -0000 --nextPart4635696.WB4jkQphGq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases. > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't > get MFCed to stable/7. =C2=A0Even if it was we're already something of a > heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all > along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the > same time drop CDs-with-packages. =46WIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how=20 to read the install off a DOS device :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4635696.WB4jkQphGq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLZQjQ5ZPcIHs/zowRAmPMAKCnss4RvwoVR9eY7k+tmwZ5EFk5lACffd04 pnIegu1xp+uM68wns3LrPck= =Eht0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4635696.WB4jkQphGq--