On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:29:26PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:23:26PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > As many have noticed, 5.1-BETA install and CDROM bits have been > > available from the ftp sites for ia32, pc98, and sparc64 for a little > > while now. The release engineering team had originally intended to give > > a formal announcement of these, but various delays got in the way and > > the announcement more-or-less fell by the wayside. You'll also note > > that there still isn't an Alpha build, though David O'Brien, Wilko > > Bulte, and Ruslan Ermilov have been working furiously to correct this. > > Well.. today I have for the first time seen a 5.1-BETA build complete > without errors. > > It even installs from CD, but something is fubared in sysinstall (it appears > to me). Every Extracting <foo> fails, in the sense that sysinstall extracts > all the stuff, and then reports an error. If you boneheadedly ignore all > these failure messages you end up with a systems that appears to have > installed fine, and seems to work fine too. At least that is what my brief > testing on the AlphaStation 500 showed. > > I am uploading the build as-is to freefall, if someone could push them over > to ftp-master? I know this by no means a clean build, but I would like to Once they are done uploading of course.. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko_at_FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) BulteReceived on Sat May 17 2003 - 03:39:15 UTC
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