Re: Where did the 9.0 BETA1 images go?

From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:58:32 +0300
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann_at_ans-netz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to replace some harddisks in my fileserver and plan to
> reinstall FreeBSD this weekend on it. I'll also switch from i386 to amd64
> as the hardware the system runs on has changed last year as well.
> I don't want to install 8 again as I don't want to reinstall / upgrade
> 8 -> 9 later when 9 is finally released. I did this as well when 8 was
> about to be released and used images from some japanese snapshot server
> back those days (as far as I can remember).
>
> I now saw announces from august, that some BETA1 images of 9.0 where
> "released" and wanted to use those:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026181.html
> http://www.freebsdnews.net/2011/08/01/freebsd-9-beta1-testing/
>
> But sadly they seem to be gone from the FTP servers. The system has
> beside its harddisks only a floppy drive (no space for a CD-ROM) so
> I would need the memstick image
> Any idea where I could get FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img from?
>
> I'd like to do the upgrade this weekend as the system runs actually a
> degraded gmirror (2 already broken drives and no spare drive left...)
> and who knows when the last remaining drive fails as well...
>
>  Greetings, Oliver

http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/

Regards,
George
Received on Tue Sep 06 2011 - 06:20:48 UTC

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