Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:06:05 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Holmen?= <oystein@holmen.cc> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <1DE73C33-06AD-4569-A90C-370484EB6019@holmen.cc> In-Reply-To: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org>
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I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso =20 to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-=20 sites og mirrors. Where can I download it? Sincerely, =D8ystein Holmen Den 15. jul. 2005 kl. 12:56 skrev Scott Long: > Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the > FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. > > FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 =20 > branch > than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work =20 > that has > gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the > work from 5.x These changes include streamlining direct device access > in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem > layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as > countless bugfixes and device driver improvements. Major updates and > improvements have been made to ACPI power and thermal management, ATA, > and many aspects of the network infrastructure. 32bit application > support for AMD64 is also greatly improved, as is compatiblity with > certain Athlon64 motherboards. This release is also the first to > feature experimental PowerPC support for the Macintosh G3 and G4 > platforms. > > This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly =20 > Snapshots. > For most of the architectures only the ISO images are available though > the FTP install tree is available for a couple of the architectures. > > We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be =20 > identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given =20 > below. If you have an older system you want to update using the =20 > normal CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is =20 > RELENG_6 (though that will change for the Release Candidates =20 > later). Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) =20 > command. > > The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the > todo list: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html > > Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough > idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available > but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html > > Known Issues > ------------ > > For the PowerPC architecture /etc/fstab isn't written out properly, so > the first boot throws you into the mountroot> prompt. You will need > to manually enter where the root partition is and fix /etc/fstab. =20 > Also > the GEM driver is listed as 'unknown' in the network config dialog. > > For all architectures a kernel rebuild might be needed to get some > FreeBSD 5 applications to run. Add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD5" to the > kernel configuration file if you have problems with FreeBSD 5 =20 > executables. > > > Availability > ------------ > > The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD =20= > Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-=20 > ftp.html > > The MD5s are: > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) =3D = eabda0a086e5492fe43626ce5be1d7e1 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) =3D d7fe900bb3d5f259cc3cc565c4f303e4 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) =3D = 9b04cb2f68300071c717f4aa4220bdac > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) =3D cb0f21feaf8b7dd9621f82a8157f6ed8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) =3D 84d40bc291a9ed5cd69dfa717445eeb5 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) =3D 38e0b202ee7d279bae002b883f7074ec > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) =3D b2baa8c18d4637ef02822a0da6717408 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) =3D 2b151a3cea8843d322c75ff76779ffcf > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) =3D 97800ec7d4b29927a8e66a2b53e987fb > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) =3D 7d29cd9317997136507078971762a0d8 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) =3D 6ff974e60a3964cf16fcec05925c14e9 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) =3D 40a3134cce89bd5f7033d8b9181edf91 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) =3D =20 > 2f64974e9bd5adcf813f5d35ff742443 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) =3D b2562c38414ff4866f5ed8b3a38683c8 > > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =3D =20 > ae9610aeb1169d2cc649628606014441 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) =3D af21752630b13cf60c9498fbf7f793b6 > MD5 (6.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) =3D 3241af814bfe93a97707c7a964c57718 > > > Thanks to Ken Smith, Marcel Moolenaar, Wilko Bulte, and Takahashi > Yoshihiro, and Peter Grehan for doing the sparc64, ia64, alpha, pc98, > and ppc builds, respectively. Thanks also to Ken Smith for his =20 > help on > writing much of this announcement. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-=20 > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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