Updated 5.1 status

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:23:26PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> As many have noticed, 5.1-BETA install and CDROM bits have been
> available from the ftp sites for ia32, pc98, and sparc64 for a little
> while now.  The release engineering team had originally intended to give
> a formal announcement of these, but various delays got in the way and
> the announcement more-or-less fell by the wayside.  You'll also note
> that there still isn't an Alpha build, though David O'Brien, Wilko
> Bulte, and Ruslan Ermilov have been working furiously to correct this.

Well.. today I have for the first time seen a 5.1-BETA build complete
without errors.

It even installs from CD, but something is fubared in sysinstall (it appears
to me). Every Extracting <foo> fails, in the sense that sysinstall extracts
all the stuff, and then reports an error. If you boneheadedly ignore all
these failure messages you end up with a systems that appears to have
installed fine, and seems to work fine too. At least that is what my brief
testing on the AlphaStation 500 showed.

I am uploading the build as-is to freefall, if someone could push them over
to ftp-master? I know this by no means a clean build, but I would like to
know sooner rather than later what other Alpha models do as far as
installing goes. And specifically floppy/ftp installs.

I do not have the time to test all that stuff, let alone all the hardware
needed.

Wilko

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