From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 10 22:39:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 4763616A41F for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:39:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from avmta3-rme.xtra.co.nz (avmta3-rme.xtra.co.nz [210.86.15.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1CD43D46 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:39:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.15.193]) by avmta3-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20051210223904.WGKD1410.avmta3-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz> for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:04 +1300 Received: from serv.int.fubar.geek.nz ([222.152.219.118]) by mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20051210223904.VGMC1416.mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz@serv.int.fubar.geek.nz> for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:04 +1300 Received: from [192.168.1.160] (unknown [192.168.1.160]) by serv.int.fubar.geek.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91FF611A for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:02 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <439B5907.4010809@fubar.geek.nz> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:03 +1300 From: Andrew Turner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: BSDInstaller Beta 2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:39:08 -0000 I am pleased to announce the second release of FreeBSD install CD's based on the BSD Installer. The new Lua backend is now being used in this release rather than the older, deprecated C version. The CD image is available from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/bsdinstaller/7.0-BSDINSTALLER-BETA-2-i386-disc1.iso.gz or your local mirror MD5 (7.0-BSDINSTALLER-BETA-2-i386-disc1.iso) = 1becb489666ee97f5e10ebc5a0987f2d SHA256 (7.0-BSDINSTALLER-BETA-2-i386-disc1.iso) = e5f6114258e1b66adfd84636ffbd3286c7ad41dadab42e615da68f5b0cf8cbaf As with the previous Beta release there are three virtual consoles available: * ttyv0: The frontend * ttyv1: The backend * ttyv2: A standard login screen to login as root with no password Changes Since BETA-1 * Can now install Source * Can now install the Ports tree * Can now install Packages * Change to the new Lua backend Known Problems * Can only install to one drive, can't have / on ad0 and /usr on ad1 * fdisk doesn't alter the geometry Thank you to Scott Long for providing a computer to build this with.