If memory serves me right, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Once again it's my pleasure to announce Release Cadidate 3 of > > FreeBSD 5.0. > > Perhaps I do things in a non-standard way, but its worked for the last 8 > years from 2.x through to 4.7-stable..... > > Firstly, I download 'floppies' and create the 2 boot disks, kern.flp and > mgsroot.flp. Then I download 'bin' (now called 'base'!?) to my fileserver. > > Next, I boot the box with 2 the new floppies, and tell sysinstall to use > 'FTP' to the fileserver URL (ftp://172.22.2.2) and install 'minimal' (in > other words, just install 'bin' (now called 'base'!? - anyone remember > the acronym POLA?)).
...which was documented (along with the reason why this change was made) in the release notes. :-) Cheers, Bruce.
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