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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 Install...
Date: 28 Nov 1994 13:59:12 GMT
Organization: North Shore Access/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
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Distribution: world
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References: <1994Nov26.165503.2828@palantir.p.tvt.se> <3bcfib$moc@wup-gate.wup.de> <JKH.94Nov28132056@whisker.hubbard.ie>
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In article <JKH.94Nov28132056@whisker.hubbard.ie>, jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
|>    Would be nice if you could correct all or some of it before
|>    distributing the release on CD Rom !!! I think many people might have
|>    severe problems to install the release ...
|> 
|> But this was our first release of 2.0, and we do realize that there
|> were some pretty ugly bugs in the installation.  We definitely plan to
|> do some SERIOUS work on 2.1, and test it a whole lot more than we had
|> time to test 2.0.  2.0 was very very late, and we simply ran out of time
|> in our schedule! :-(

Could you please, however, provide some *formal* way for people to
work-around these things by posting a list of the problems and the
work-arounds in an obviously named file at ftp.freebsd.com.  That would
save you from having to answer the same questions 59 times, and would
prevent me from muttering nasty things about jkh under my breath... ;-)

Or, keep fixing the install disks...

Or, provide a fixme tarball...

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