From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 21 9:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A016F37B410; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8LGlLO18698; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: bright@mu.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? In-Reply-To: <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> References: <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010921094721N.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:47:21 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 45 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It will require re-rolling 4.4-install.iso and 4.4-mini.iso. If you want to petition hubs@freebsd.org to see if they'd object to re-mirroring them, that would be a good first step. If they don't disagree, I'm sure Murray would be happy to fix them in his ISO build tree and push them back up to ftp-master again. I believe he already did this for the set going out from WRS. - Jordan > * Bruce A. Mah [010921 09:49] wrote: > > If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then > > > > > > Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely > > > redistributable. Murray simply forgot to put it on the ISOs he > > > created. :) > > > > OK, it sounds like I need to make an(other) entry in the errata file. > > > > What about something like: > > > > The tools/ directory of a FreeBSD CDROM distribution typically contains > > some DOS programs for i386 machines, such as fdimage and fips. This > > directory was inadvertently omitted from the 4.4-RELEASE ISO images > > generated by the FreeBSD Project. The contents of the tools/ directory > > are, however, available by anonymous FTP at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/ > > FreeBSD/tools (many mirrors also have a copy of this directory). > > > > (Use your imagination to get the right markup.) > > > > How's that? > > I don't know, missing the tool to make disk images from DOS is > a pretty bad thing IMO, any way to get this fixed? > > > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message