BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a future merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace sysinstall on the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would like to pull this switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make release must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get non-sysinstall media): http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff Test ISOs for amd64 and i386 can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110222.iso.bz2 http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110224.iso.bz2 More recent test ISOs, as well as ones for other architectures, may be available at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall Bug reports would be very appreciated at this time. There are three known bugs currently, which will be fixed soon, so please don't report these: error reporting is not graceful if there are no writable disks in the system, you must select at least one optional component, and the doc build is not currently connected to the releases. There are some changes to the distribution format involved in this patch, which are outlined below, and about which I would also appreciate feedback: - The src tree is not split up into pieces (e.g. ssbin) as with sysinstall - Distfiles are not chunked, but are single xz-compressed archives - There is only one CD image produced, which is always also a live CD - There are no packages on this CD. There is about 100 MB of free space on it right now, so it might make sense to keep it this way and to make a separate packages CD/DVD. Removing packages from disc1 also makes cross-building release ISOs possible. Thanks to everyone who has provided testing and feedback over the last two months! -NathanReceived on Mon Feb 28 2011 - 13:49:11 UTC
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