From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 7:29:51 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 0796137B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAAA43F6D for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trish@bsdunix.net) Received: from femme.sapphite.org (pcp02268182pcs.longhl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.99.190]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8P006SIN0JI8@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:29:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by femme.sapphite.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EFT2wj052184; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:29:03 -0500 (EST envelope-from trish@bsdunix.net) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:29:02 -0500 (EST) From: Trish Lynch Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available In-reply-to: <20030114025624.K29856-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> X-X-Sender: To: Andy Farkas Cc: Scott Long , current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20030114102704.A758-100000@femme> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, 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?)). I just want to point out, POLA really only applies to -STABLE, and we're talking very specifically about -CURRENT. IN -CURRENT, substantial changes can be made with little warning, and only documentation sometimes (most of the time, people give a ***HEADS UP!*** email on this list). However don;t assume because something is one way in the 4.x branch that it will be the same in 5.x. If this were the case, we'd have very little progress. -Trish -- Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org EFNet IRC Operator @ efnet.demon.co.uk AilleCat@EFNet Key fingerprint = C44E 8E63 6E3C 18BD 608F E004 9DC7 C2E9 0E24 DFBD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message