From owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 07:02:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386FD16A4B3; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8E043FF9; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [129.85.219.160] (salt.rockefeller.edu [129.85.219.160]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3096FE68; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com> References: <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:00:57 -0400 To: Murray Stokely From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Ian Dowse cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Quality Assurance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:02:21 -0000 At 8:19 AM -0700 2003/09/29, Murray Stokely wrote: >Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least >available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this >candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > >We are particularly interested in having people test this release >candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so >that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested. Another data point; I thought rc1.iso had the USB / fork1 fix, but switching my KVM (detaching its USB hub) away from the FreeBSD system during dmesg spew crashed it twice. I will also try to reproduce this in more detail tonight. Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: