Re: Updated 5.1 status

From: Wilko Bulte <wkb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:37:54 +0200
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..

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