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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:43:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
Cc: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Trish Lynch wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > 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).

POLA is overridden by "you can't have a combined rescue/install CD without
this change".

-Nate


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