Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:11:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319145940.1739B-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199803192215.OAA26828@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > If you want a stable release, then I cannot stress this strongly enough > - GET INVOLVED NOW! Not knocking this, but I've expressed concern over one upgrade problem that I don't think is related to the compatibility slice change, and am concerned because besides a workaround and a few "me-too"s (not as many as I'd expect if this were a widespread problem, but I've seen it on EVERY machine I've tried this on), I haven't heard the problem mentioned. I pointed this out a month ago or so, and again when 2.2.6 went BETA, and it was still there as of the 980315-BETA. That is, when I upgrade, even on a machine that was freshly installed using the same BETA, the disk label editor comes up blank. If you quit out of the label editor at this point, you loose everything, unless you can remember exactly what size/order your partitions were in. I've seen this on two IDE machines and one SCSI (AHA2940UW) machine. However, once installed, /stand/sysinstall's disk label editor doesn't have a problem. I've been out sick the last two days, so I haven't tried a more recent BETA (will do that tomorrow, and let everyone know the results), but I originally heard about a 10 day BETA period, and we're real close to the end of that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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