And just FYI, to put this into the archives (so hopefully nobody else has to ask this question :-) ), I got responses from my weblog that posted a number of different places to find the 4.7 images:
Philip Southam wrote: Found it after a couple of minutes on google, I cannot vouch for the quality and/or authenticity. http://ftp.iranscience.net/pub/FreeBSD/Iso-imagei386/4.7/ Philip Southam wrote: Just found these as well. http://ftp.csie.chu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.7/ http://download.norcomcable.ca/Linux/FreeBSD/4.7/ http://galileo.gamepoint.com.au/pub/freebsd/isos/4.7/ So, at least until Rotor Whidbey ships, we've got a resource at which to find the 4.7 images. Ted Neward Author, Instructor, Consultant Java, .NET, Web services http://www.neward.net/ted Also reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hurlbut > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:25 AM > To: DOTNET-ROTOR@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] FreeBSD 4.7 images? > > Thanks for the update. > > Robert > > Alexander Petrossian writes: > > > Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI @ : > >> My apologies, Alexander. > > noproblemo, Robert, just my bad moderatorial habits. this is not my > personal forum, feel free ;) > > > >> I do want to say something in relation to Rotor and FreeBSD. The > >> original Share Source CLI documents/book mentioned it ran and was > >> tested on FreeBSD > >> 4.7. I mentioned here how I got it working on FreeBSD 4.8: > >> http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut/archive/2003/08/10/23403.aspx > >> and later tried on 5.1 > >> http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut/archive/2003/10/27/33760.aspx > >> but has some problems and stopped at that point. > >> In May, the last post on this list was from Sebastian Marion > >> mentioning he got 14000 when he tried building it on FreeBSD 5.3. > > > > I thought Sebastian was no longer interested so mailed him directly. > > We discussed with that point, > > he said that he was able to comple SSCLI under FreeBSD 5.2.1 > > > > some time ago I patched SSCLI for it to compile in this environment: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>uname -a > > FreeBSD *** 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 18 14:18:26 EEST > 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/HOST i386 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>gcc -v > > Using built-in specs. > > Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler > > Thread model: posix > > gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> > > > > it took ~50 files to patch. > > it was mostly that well-known problem > > "... depend on a template parameter" > > not not only that. > > > >> It is a very sad state of affairs when you are hard pressed to keep > >> looking for obsolete OSs to build Rotor on successfully. > > > > That's true. > > But, again, SSCLI is for academical use, so that's just another > challenge to fix that. > > A task for well-trained student ;) > > > > I agree that that's not exactly kind for non-trained-yet one ;) > > > > Alexander Petrossian, Moscow, Russia > > > > P.S. Privatly we discussed couple of GC bugs I've met with Jan Kotas, he > (indirectly) says that we have to wait untill November when > > Rotor Whidbey will roll out. > > > > P.P.S > > Let's keep our fingers crossed that this last date ;) > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorĀ® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com