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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: December 4th FreeBSD 2.0R installation floppies now available.
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: 05 Dec 1994 02:13:53 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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Well, it looks like we're finally zeroing in on a reasonable state of
affairs here! :-) The changes required have been shrinking steadily
since I first started rolling these little delta corrections, and this
final(?) set should very hopefully fix the last of the problems
reported thus far with the 2.0R installation.

In actuality, it's probably going to have to be the last set for
awhile anyway since I'll be on the road again come Tuesday morning and
out of contact with the net for a week or so.  If you want to send me
feedback on these floppies, PLEASE do so before midnight GMT Monday
(the 5th)!  Otherwise, I'll get to whatever it was around the 11th or
12th..

This set should fix the last of the tape install problems, removes ppp
from the options list since it couldn't work anyway (generic kernel
already too big) and corrects the names of a couple of the ftp sites.
I didn't add any extra ftp sites since I just didn't have time,
sorry..  The TROUBLESHOOTING doc documents how to re-enable the
floppy-tape driver, so folks should take care to read it if they're
interested in installing this way!

I've also renamed the original 2.0R install floppies into the
floppies/older directory, since it's pretty much a given at this point
that they had a lot of things wrong with them!  The "official" 2.0R
floppy images now point to the December 4th ones.

Please let me know how these go!  My biggest remaining fear is that
someone broke the GENERIC kernel in -current completely outside my
control and that now *that* is going to be what falls over, but all I
can say is that I sure hope not! :-)

Thanks!

						Jordan
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Jordan K. Hubbard	FreeBSD core team	Clams are your friends