FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1 Available...

Ken Smith kensmith at buffalo.edu
Sat May 29 15:05:26 UTC 2010


The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now
available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, pc98, and sparc64
architectures.  Files suitable for creating installation media or
doing FTP based installs through the network should be on most of
the FreeBSD mirror sites by now.  MD5/SHA256 checksums of the images
are at the bottom of this message.

The ISOs for this build do not include packages other than the docs.
For amd64 and i386 "memstick" images are also available that can be
copied to a USB "memory stick" (also called "thumb drive") and used
for installs on machines that support booting from that type of media.

The target schedule for the release is available here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/schedule.html

and the wiki page tracking the current status is here:

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO

If you find problems you can report them through the normal Gnats
based PR system or here on this mailing list.

If you are updating an already running machine the CVS branch
tag is RELENG_8, or if you prefer SVN use "stable/8".  Updates
done that way will result in a machine that says it is running
"8.1-PRERELEASE".

The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 8.0-RELEASE
can upgrade as follows:
  
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-BETA1

During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging
some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically
performed merging was done correctly.
  
# freebsd-update install

The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before
continuing.

# shutdown -r now
   
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new
userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:

# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now

Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 7.x) can also use
freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1, but will be prompted to
rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the
ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in
order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 7.x
and FreeBSD 8.x.

Checksums:

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = f491aad2302485ee2bb3ff0f1a7517e0
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = f3e8967854720e2258a395fa6699cd2c
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 43f6f0e60b1552a6fd0bb35017dd53f7
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-livefs.iso) = 6ada39bf3b58c90adc42e8df226626ab
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img) = 6849e0a969acb3c004d234bde271fff2

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = f92123989706d2109ebc2ffd386c9696
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = e66848a74dd176bfbb29fd3e40cba5ab
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = d6ff7be05dec3909c2e6a0bc5cb41a54
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc3.iso) = d2205b41f3da267d643705d698f814b8
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso) = 9d925a0b8c21417843f5d1a5f5c16063
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-livefs.iso) = 510a08125f22e100a18984198c640f3c
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-memstick.img) = c08e0f9b0f5df9c406b069d8e6087a47

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 18e41d3d24e7b3a51b507a7518401e05
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 706c77f3859dc4eb852e709e2aaabc7f
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc2.iso) = 63c64715211f3a1ae4ea6c142e71ad09
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc3.iso) = ece2835a2c68136d01f706b167aa0d40
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-dvd1.iso) = b1913f121343d990a369146863c0fc3f
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 66bcbb4e946beb12d57f4da78c44acf6

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-bootonly.iso) = 27f4c2ddf9a3d945cf218cabef68edc4
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = d8ab88d88b458f140fce39cec027b892
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-livefs.iso) = 37102e8e1f28942a1666b561eede5859

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 55d85e7e6e5930f0ab68b7be023e8acd
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 05c4fa05d7c5478d88a64da7af1f67af
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc2.iso) = c4a0d44421fd11646839a4eb6e16d32a
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc3.iso) = 92d07d4ff0f62f88cf1f46bd3ffc0982

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 2930fb42cd0c626b157abd5f6a60c297
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = e115e85a5e83b63142d5f02f44e61e66
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-dvd1.iso) = cf24647bd0e00462bf33423864f942cf
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-livefs.iso) = 777c3604d88eae2f3011e80a579416e9

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 249e9e6c3202a29e000c6df2aea2ed6937aa975a6c7959593fea7b1b1b20c408
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = db2f63becc38fadbb2fd1ec29142d4309ad03eb22cafcd6818ac284487bbb580
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 7ae07967f495bc298f1a7852783b4631fd0fc4a6517fbb60042a4377e977c3e1
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-livefs.iso) = 8502721b505f218b3be2feb1cb1d6d8438b1bf4b3b765ba5154c4ad9a23e6ef1
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img) = 92e36b2788f58569ae475d4ad3ec67a9a0c4167abe00b8370274f28505332c33

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 07130310d0470accde8590f64b9ddd2620a19789df14ff0c823fad71962ebceb
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 40fc6540f44324718e94ba2a3c4905b448b8e889cd65d4f5f82de905cf059d22
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = f699f12449c84006994d46cc627c507af3c5947d604d6703d9d8563710ee62b8
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-disc3.iso) = 1568781c01a30d4f3d59eb0ea2061d1e5df7d27db403443c3215f1da447ff6e3
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso) = f8c4a8ca9e5077d3690903dad652a4ec245bab3ec15176dad113b7e4ce90b239
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-livefs.iso) = 1ae66cfd3c6fb6edf48f5a8d38d4097b4488b90025f0777a49307cccec04c2da
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-memstick.img) = 1cfc15def9d0c9c36a0394bc41d4e59d3d25612f10563b061df2e0d75e665557

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 6db5a2ba942526ff40dc36d2aa8847d56661fdaa62725500506f3b70b3c38be8
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 4b1f87932658b156e093bbfede185a1965f892ac4d8a007e49252ab9efe256bb
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc2.iso) = 38fd9cee73e29f6e3ec87cb8cebd3113fd4b37dc0de8fb6c5401c776c57799f9
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-disc3.iso) = a30c22fd983960ecd5c70939b31b09efe907ae8dc46b6dc830959998f0574d58
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-dvd1.iso) = 0cf2229ae748f8b4b33b3317b80d1fc1443a774b81acb42c08b06c8fb202a04d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = b99ca9fdb4c10c85f2ab3b71d4aed79419d95266af2b3b479cf522a72dedbc00

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-bootonly.iso) = 8a65b0e0db9f8cad6451a3e10d2af858d157f2def59d7006a1a5824d8a4d244b
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 8327a872f913d5a13fed73583e1ae757c1ec855a0addb009c1ffb23c2f345f59
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-pc98-livefs.iso) = 5dc9782a9181d54b50b636c9df7044834dfbffaa48ec156249765263c7732bd0

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 5b26bb9d6890fb31cc2884d55340c65b6b41c0d37a9ce81853c10bc4f02c1d40
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 305560feb1e5cdfb06f47d743fc213f5c8bf534691013966898c0229d1a51701
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc2.iso) = ee114228b8aaf7a5ff64c8e6fbec91afbe77591b463360cf5222cebb5d5ff6d8
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-powerpc-disc3.iso) = 090c8f23392cc84e6589fdda8b9cdfa784fe5462c0769162752f9b96c47e5b97

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 68520bcb6b70d0185a30ba45bf5578efb0d350c417259a00fe256e06623211e5
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 9e87ef3cd679754b66d8e04116b11a958dc5e8f31fcbd466b9b2b80687bdba38
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-dvd1.iso) = 3b006f87bb388cd0d9d6f90d86c12092d14d105fcd76144050a280f12fdece8e
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-sparc64-livefs.iso) = 7df1d5e69209ec540982476f9f0d67ac98017482b15df274a75a71a9331fd8b8


-- 
                                                Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |
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