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FreeBSD 5.1 beta2 Now Available 32

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded the 5.1 i386 Beta2 release of FreeBSD. He will be uploading the alpha release, work is under way to get a beta2 for sparc64 and pc98. Downloads for i386 are available here."
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FreeBSD 5.1 beta2 Now Available

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  • Of course... (Score:5, Informative)

    by Dimwit ( 36756 ) * on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @04:12PM (#6010795)
    If you wanted to be nice to those folks at the FreeBSD project, you could always use a mirror [freebsdmirrors.org].

    In fact, in the future it might not be a bad idea to have Slashdot only link to freebsdmirrors.org. I know that the FreeBSD people have gotten pissed in the past about that...
    • Re:Of course... (Score:2, Interesting)

      by coughfeeman ( 608160 )
      Um, I thought this was exactly what bitTorrent was for, as opposed to the animatrix series (which actually was fed faster by the originating servers).
      • Is there a way to originate bittorrent from Unix? It looked like you needed Windows, and those of us serious enough about FreeBSD to care may not have Windows!

        • Re:Of course... (Score:3, Interesting)

          by eht ( 8912 )
          the original client is python based and could be run under pretty much anything, freebsd even has it in their ports
  • Is there any way to install FreeBSD on an extended DOS partition ? I've never been able to install FreeBSD 5 on my workstation because of this limitation.
    • by Arandir ( 19206 ) on Friday May 23, 2003 @01:25AM (#6021852) Homepage Journal
      There's no way that I know of. Most operating systems cannot boot from anything but a primary partition, with Linux being the only exception that I know of. Slices are the BSD version of logical partitions, and from what I understand, they predate Microsoft's extended/logical partition scheme. BSD can access DOS logical partitions just fine, but it can't boot from them.

      There is a workaround though. Convert that logical partition to a primary partition. This will probably involve some shuffling around, so get a good repartitioner. Once you have a free primary partition, install away.

      Or do what I do, and use a separate harddrive. At one time this was prohibitive, but drives are so cheap now that it's the easy and simple solution.
  • by Anonymous Coward


    I've put a torrent up for the MiniDist ISO:
    ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/torrents/5.1-BETA2-i386 -miniinst.iso.torrent [freebsd.org]

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