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From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce
Subject: New boot floppies for 2.0 ALPHA available
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Date: 12 Nov 1994 22:50:34 -0800
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As part of our ongoing support for ALPHA users, new boot floppies for
2.0 ALPHA are available on:

	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-ALPHA/floppies/newer/

These images _should_ fix all reported problems so far:

	o	Floppy tape installation is now supported.

	o	The DEC PCI ethernet driver is now supported.

	o	"more" processing and IRQ setting in the boot -c stuff works.
		(-c invokes the dynamic kernel configuration option at boot
		 time).

	o	Several confusing bits of the README are fixed or reworded

	o	Interrupts are now handled semi-gracefully

	o	`cu' is now available for users who need to dial-out their
		SLIP lines before going on with the transfer.  There's even
		a prompt for it (let me know if this works, it's sort of
		untested since my test box got taken over for XFree86 3.1
		development!).

	o	ncftp should not go into bogus interaction mode on errors

	o	tar and basename are now in the distribution, which should
		help folks trying to install the srcdist before (or at the
		same time as) the bindist.

	o	Install now asks you nicely one last time before clobbering
		your disk.

	o	Much general cleanup, elimination of typos, etc etc.


Still not supported but planned for BETA.

	o	DOS floppy or partition installation

	o	User after-configuration (usernames, timezone, etc).


Thanks, and please let me know immediately if you have any problems!


					Jordan