On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:24:51PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/11/2011 18:51, Brett Glass wrote: > > I need to build up some new servers this weekend, and my first choice > > for the OS would be FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 if it were available. Alas, it > > isn't, and there's no sign of when it's coming (neither the Release > > Engineering page or the Wiki is anywhere near up to date). RC1 has a few > > bugs that I'd like to avoid, as does 8.2-RELEASE. Recommendations? > > It's here already: > > maggot:~:% uname -a > FreeBSD maggot.black-earth.co.uk 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #1: Sat Nov 12 > 01:06:59 GMT 2011 > r...@maggot.black-earth.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAGGOT amd64 > > Don't know about iso images or the like: this was upgraded from -RC1 by > compiling sources. >
Don't know why you would go with 9.0 on a new server but ok. It's not that hard to build up your own ISO via the process laid out in the docs. make realease is pretty nice. Tweak as neccesary... #!/bin/sh trap 'exit 1' 2 VERSION=8.1-STABLE BRANCH="stable/8" SVNVER=$(svnversion /usr/src) RELNAME=${VERSION}-r${SVNVER} THISBUILD=${RELNAME} ;export THISBUILD MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/RELEASE ;export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX KERNELS=SH4500 ;export KERNELS NUMCPUS=$(($(sysctl -n kern.smp.cpus)*2+(8))) cd /usr/src/release nice make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/obj/RELEASE BUILDNAME=${THISBUILD} \ SVNROOT=file:///exports/nsvn SVNBRANCH=${BRANCH} EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src \ NOPORTS=YES NODOCS=YES EXTPORTSDIR=/usr/ports EXTDOCDIR=/usr/doc \ MAKE_ISOS=YES _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"