FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available

Chris Pepper pepper at reppep.com
Wed Oct 1 07:02:21 PDT 2003


At 8:19 AM -0700 2003/09/29, Murray Stokely wrote:
>Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least
>available from ftp.freebsd.org.  Please download and install this
>candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.
>
>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.

	Another data point; I thought rc1.iso had the USB / fork1 
fix, but switching my KVM (detaching its USB hub) away from the 
FreeBSD system during dmesg spew crashed it twice. I will also try to 
reproduce this in more detail tonight.


						Chris Pepper
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