Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

From: Matthias Andree (ma_at_dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: 10/02/03

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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:00:55 +0200

    Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> writes:

    > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1
    > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso
    >
    > We are particularly interested in having people test this release
    > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so
    > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.

    Well, I did an FTP install (rather than ISO) from ftp7.de.freebsd.org
    and it went mostly smooth, two issues:

    1. ports collection is claimed to not be found (what the heck...) but
       some INDEX file is available, so pkg_add works.

    2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the
       machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether
       this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7
       CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM
       (66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even
       under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot). 

    -- 
Matthias Andree
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