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 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301140942080.38660-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20030114102704.A758-100000@femme>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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