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Date:      Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:29:45 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots
Message-ID:  <506EEED9.6060208@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20121005135110.GA1339@glenbarber.us>
References:  <20121005135110.GA1339@glenbarber.us>

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Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A number of FreeBSD users have displayed interest in the availability
> and testing of -STABLE and -CURRENT snapshot releases.
>
> I have been working on generating snapshots regularly, and now would
> like to announce their availability for those interested in testing.
>
> Please note, as always with the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches, these
> snapshots are not intended for production systems.
>
> The snapshots available are:
>
>   - 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>   - 10.0-CURRENT i386
>   - 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64
>   - 9.1-PRERELEASE i386
>
> Note that the 9.1-PRERELEASE snapshots are the stable/9 branch, not what
> will eventually be 9.1-RELEASE.
>
> I do not yet have snapshots for the 8-STABLE branch, but am working on
> the magic to make that happen as well.  There are also no bootonly ISOs,
> since the necessary distribution sets are not available on the FreeBSD
> FTP servers, so I cannot direct the installer to a different location
> very easily.
>
> The URL for the snapshots is:
>
>      https://snapshots.glenbarber.us/Latest/

It would be nice to have them hosted on FreeBSD.org site as official 
source.
Unofficial snapshots can be downloaded from 
https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ for a long time (bootonly.iso too)

Miroslav Lachman



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