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From: jcargill@netdisc.com (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: New BSDisc now shipping
Date: 24 Jun 1997 09:42:45 -0500
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This actually should have been posted a week ago, since that's when 
InfoMagic started shipping the new disc; my apologies for the late 
announcement.

Jon
DiscNet, Inc.
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DiscNet, Inc., and InfoMagic, Inc. are pleased to announce that our
new release of the BSDisc is now shipping.

The current issue includes:

	- FreeBSD 2.2.2 Release
		- distribution sets for i386, plus ports tree
	- FreeBSD pre-built binary packages for 2.2.2
	- FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 Release
		- distribution sets for i386, plus a ports tree, but 
		  not the packages
	- NetBSD 1.2.1 Release
		- distribution sets for all architectures that were
                  available as of the mastering date (amiga, atari,
                  hp300, i386, mac68k, mvme68k, sparc, x68k). 
                  NOTE:  the following architectures were NOT released
                         with 1.2.1, and thus are NOT on the CD:
                         alpha, pc532, pmax, sun3
		- expanded kernel source tree for all architectures
	- XFree86 binaries for both FreeBSD and NetBSD
	- BSD-related news archive
	- various Answers to Frequently asked Question (FAQs)

The BSDisc is available both for single-issue purchases, or on a
subscription plan.  Single-issue price is $35.00 (plus S&H); contact
DiscNet for current subscription pricing and terms.

For single-issue purchases, contact InfoMagic at:
						       +1-800-800-6613
	InfoMagic, Inc.                           Tel: +1-520-526-9565
	11950 N. Highway 89                       Fax: +1-520-526-9573
	Flagstaff, AZ  86004              e-mail: orders@Infomagic.com
                                                  info@infomagic.com

For information about subscriptions, contact DiscNet at:

	DiscNet, Inc.                             Tel: +1-206-632-0869
	4529 4th Ave NE
	Seattle, WA  98105		        email: info@netdisc.com
                                                       orders@netdisc.com

There are a couple of pretty trivial errata on this issue, which are 
worth mentioning up-front:
- The CD is labelled "April 1997", but it was really pre-mastered at the
  end of May, so it should say May 1997.  What happened was that we were
  almost set to ship a 2.2.1 disc, when we were surprised by the "Stealth
  Release (2.2.2)".  The new bits got on the CDs, but the covers/cases
  were not reprinted, so they have the wrong date.
- The FreeBSD install will say "This doesn't look like a FreeBSD CD";
  choose the ignore button, and install will proceed flawlessly.  The 
  reason for this message is that we included two version of FreeBSD on 
  the CD-ROM, and the installer looks for a file called 'cdrom.inf' in 
  the root of the CD; since we included two FreeBSD versions, we 
  couldn't include both cdrom.inf files in the root, and including one
  or the other would generate a far more confusing warning from the
  installer.  As it is, this warning is completely safe to ignore.

Thanks for your interest.

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BSDisc is a trademark of DiscNet, Inc.