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From: jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5Alpha->Release
Date: 16 Jun 1995 10:45:06 GMT
Organization: Internet Eireann
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In-reply-to: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us's message of 15 Jun 1995 22:19:49 GMT

In article <3rqbm6$ssp@toads.pgh.pa.us> durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (James C. Durham) writes:

   Is there a set of diffs from ALPHA to RELEASE? I'm on a shakey SLIP
   connection, so I'd like to not do it all over again 8-(. I've seen
   mentions in the newsgroups about which group of bits is which but
   I came up confused and would like to be flamed into the right track!

I don't think it's really all that necessary.  99% of the changes made
between ALPHA and RELEASE (no BETA, sorry) were made to the
installation program, and if you've got that already then there's
not a lot of sense in "upgrading".

That said, there were a couple of kernel fixes made that are pretty
important, so you might consider just fetching over the bindist and
extracting the kernel.GENERIC for running.

If you're a source kinda guy then Poul-Henning has also made CTM diffs
available on ref.tfs.com, so you can build a kernel with these changes
yourself.

					Jordan