Updated 5.1 status

[Wilko Bulte]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:29:26PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Once they are done uploading of course..

They are done.

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