From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 10: 9:59 2003 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 4110737B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF5043E4A for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003011318095600100js452e>; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:09:56 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DI9sA8094456; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0DI9s1M094455; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301131809.h0DI9s1M094455@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20021120 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Andy Farkas Cc: Scott Long , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available In-Reply-To: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Comments: In-reply-to Andy Farkas message dated "Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:22:02 +1000." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1150464124P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:54 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_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