On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Trish Lynch wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: > > 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?)). > > I just want to point out, POLA really only applies to -STABLE, and we're > talking very specifically about -CURRENT. > > IN -CURRENT, substantial changes can be made with little warning, and only > documentation sometimes (most of the time, people give a ***HEADS UP!*** > email on this list).
POLA is overridden by "you can't have a combined rescue/install CD without this change". -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
