Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-25 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:53:38PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: peter@ has been working busily in a Perforce branch to fix a lot of crap and it's by no means a small amount of work that he's done so far, especially taking into account the amount of testing and debugging he seems to be doing.

RE: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-23 Thread Lucky Green
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [requesting 5.0 testers] If you don't have the machine-power to run make release yourself, I hope the japanese snapshot server is producing good snapshots, if that fails, I would appreciate if somebody will produce and put up good releases and/or ISO images somewhere. It

5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I built a make release overnight and I managed to install from it by copying the boot.flp image to a ZIP disk, selecting Minimum and FTP passive. So far so good. But we all know that sysintall has a few more bells and whistles than that, so NOW is the TIME of all good men to come to the aid of

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I want as many people as possible to beat up on sysinstall as much as they can. And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. Please try to be creative in the choices you make in sysinstall, we don't need 20 people all testing ftp-passive, we need to

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-21 ] [ Subjecte: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] I want as many people as possible to beat up on sysinstall as much as they can. I've been fighting to find a way to install -CURRENT pure on my workstation using

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Juli Mallett wrote: Anyone with a good idea on how to bootstrap a _clean_ 5.0 install to a box with only a CDROM drive, and 4.7 CD, with broken PXE firmware, and an IDE disk which can be thrashed, by all means tell me... I'd imagine that I could just use the mfsroot and kernel, but there's no

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] Juli Mallett wrote: Anyone with a good idea on how to bootstrap a _clean_ 5.0 install to a box with only a CDROM drive, and 4.7 CD, with broken PXE firmware

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Juli Mallett wrote: Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all. Where do you live ? I'm sure we can find someone with a CD burner near you willing

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Soeren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] It seems Juli Mallett wrote: Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Juli Mallett wrote: Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all. You don't burn a CD from the other box, you install from it. Though FreeBSD doesn't

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] Juli Mallett wrote: Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have a CD burner

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Juli Mallett wrote: If I wanted to do this, I could, but it would not give me a clean 5.0 install, and it is also not that simple at this time, as (afaict) kern.disks is required by sysinstall, which 4.x doesn't support... And even then, I'd have to blow away everything except /tmp first,

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: If you don't have the machine-power to run make release yourself, I hope the japanese snapshot server is producing good snapshots, if that fails, I would appreciate if somebody will produce and put up good releases and/or ISO

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Kyle R . Green
Hello. I downloaded the floppies for 5.0-20021021-SNAP from ftp2.freebsd.org. When I perform the install it complains a few times about not being able to create /tmp, due to a read-only filesystem, and, later in the install, cannot write /etc/resolv.conf, stopping the install dead in its

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kyle R.Green wr ites: Hello. I downloaded the floppies for 5.0-20021021-SNAP from ftp2.freebsd.org. When I perform the install it complains a few times about not being able to create /tmp, due to a read-only filesystem, and, later in the install, cannot write

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread marius
Last week I replace a broken mainboard with a dual-Athlon one (Tyan Tiger s2466n-4m) and decided to upgrade that box from 4-stable to -current by installing the 0917-jpsnap via the floppies and passive ftp. I hit several sysinstall-problems some of which my already be fixed: - The hd I install

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Mathieu Arnold
--On mardi 22 octobre 2002 10:08 +0100 Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: If you don't have the machine-power to run make release yourself, I hope the japanese snapshot server is producing good snapshots, if that fails,

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread The Anarcat
On Tue Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. [...] 9 days??? There won't be another DP? A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, The Anarcat wrote: On Tue Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. [...] 9 days??? There won't be another DP? Um, not exactly. The current release date isn't until 20 November

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:07:50PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: If memory serves me right, The Anarcat wrote: On Tue Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. 9 days??? There won't be another DP? Um, not

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Steve Kargl wrote: I've noticed many commits on cvs-all include an Approved by: re line, but I haven't seen an official code slush/freeze announcement. Feature freeze started 16 October. New feature commits (as opposed to bugfix or doc commits) should have RE

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread marius
Is sysinstall still supposed to copy the contents of the mfsroot- image to /stand ? This at least results in two copies of sysinstall, one in /stand and the other one in /usr/sbin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .de writes: Is sysinstall still supposed to copy the contents of the mfsroot- image to /stand ? This at least results in two copies of sysinstall, one in /stand and the other one in /usr/sbin. That is intentional -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread marius
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:39:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: That is intentional Is it ok then that the sysinstall in /stand of the 0917-JPSNAP immediately dumps core with signal 10 when run on a 1017 -current ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .de writes: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:39:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: That is intentional Is it ok then that the sysinstall in /stand of the 0917-JPSNAP immediately dumps core with signal 10 when run on a 1017 -current ? Current

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .de writes: Is sysinstall still supposed to copy the contents of the mfsroot- image to /stand ? This at least results in two copies of sysinstall, one in /stand and the other one in /usr/sbin. That is intentional

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread marius
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:40:12PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: For what it's worth; I'm also using a dual-Athlon that gets spontaneous reboots once in a while and seems like it could possibly have to do with ACPI activating while the system is trying to cool itself down. Do you have any

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:39:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: That is intentional Is it ok then that the sysinstall in /stand of the 0917-JPSNAP immediately dumps

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. If the release is only 9 days away, what will be done about the signal/FPU register stuff? As it stands, [x]emacs still hangs often enough, and KDE managed to destabilize

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Alex Zepeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. If the release is only 9 days away, what

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Wm Brian McCane
: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] It seems Juli Mallett wrote: Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Wm Brian McCane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] Wow, spooky, I used to live at: 8716 W 70th Terr Shawnee Mission, KS 66204 Of course, that was back in the early 70's ;). Anyway, I might be able

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Kenneth Mays
Well, I'll send it to you or anyone else if you can provide me with the link of what you want. Only thing I ask is that an official Mesa 4.0.4 FSBD port makes it into the 5.0 release as well as the next 4.x release. ;o) All I ask! -K