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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers.taronga.com!root From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: ** Spang! ** 951026-SNAP updated. Approved: peter@taronga.com Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" Sender: root@bonkers.taronga.com (Charlie Root) Organization: FreeBSD Project Message-ID: <DHA4uE.KAn@bonkers.taronga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 20:46:00 GMT Lines: 65 ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa To: announce@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ** Spang! ** 951026-SNAP updated. Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:46:00 -0800 Message-ID: <23627.815085960@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> This is just a short announcement to note that I've just overlayed the most recent snapshot distribution, 951026-SNAP, with a new release from today. Mirrors should "refresh" themselves accordingly in the next day or so. This is NOT A NEW SNAPSHOT. This simply corrects a couple of annoying bugs that were preventing people from making full use of the snapshot in certain situations. This will not require new testing and previous snapshot folk need not worry - if they've already managed to install from the SNAP then they probably didn't suffer from the problems that I just fixed anyway! :-) Bugs fixed: o Atapi boot floppy now assumes it's alone by itself on the second IDE controller - this seems to work a lot better for most folks who were provided with dedicated controllers when they purchased their IDE CDROMS. People with IDE disks on multiple IDE controllers should NOT use this floppy image. Stick with boot.flp and build a custom kernel or something. o The apache WEB server installation makes fewer assumptions about where you'll be putting things. o Installing the secure dist no longer requires that you also install Kerberos in order to get things like telnet to work. o Boot floppy should now support the Adaptec 2940 ULTRA (this was a side-effect more than a bug fix). Still to fix: o sysinstall seems to croak in certain situations if you run it after the system is installed. o The FTP retry code still isn't 100% there - apparently it now doesn't handle reselection very well. Sigh. I'm so truly sick of looking at that part of the code that if somebody else wanted to have a look, I wouldn't fight them off! :-) It seems like every time I fix one thing, I break something else. o The media selection screen protects itself from re-entry in some situations when you'd really like it to be allowed. Whoops! o Using more than one FreeBSD "slice" can cause problems. Thanks for all the feedback so far. It's been invaluable! Jordan P.S. Sorry for bending the rules just a bit and overlaying a previous snapshot without bumping the date, but it was easier this way for what were just a few fairly low-overhead fixes. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa--