Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:54 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available Message-ID: <200301131809.h0DI9s1M094455@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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--==_Exmh_-1150464124P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Once again it's my pleasure to announce Release Cadidate 3 of > > FreeBSD 5.0. > > Perhaps I do things in a non-standard way, but its worked for the last 8 > years from 2.x through to 4.7-stable..... > > Firstly, I download 'floppies' and create the 2 boot disks, kern.flp and > mgsroot.flp. Then I download 'bin' (now called 'base'!?) to my fileserver. > > Next, I boot the box with 2 the new floppies, and tell sysinstall to use > 'FTP' to the fileserver URL (ftp://172.22.2.2) and install 'minimal' (in > other words, just install 'bin' (now called 'base'!? - anyone remember > the acronym POLA?)). ...which was documented (along with the reason why this change was made) in the release notes. :-) Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1150464124P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+IwDy2MoxcVugUsMRAs9OAJ9vLOD156kkHXhhAOvjRXM5V4/0xACgt3tb 3ETW3msFOSyiR4d5dE7D3q4= =FMYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1150464124P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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