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Update the cdboot and man/no-catpages bullet items to indicate that

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these features will not be present in FreeBSD 4.5.

Add Sysinstall module loading and ATA code to the list of "Features to
explore carefully"

Link to ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases directory, where release
candidates may be downloaded.

Add a section for "Known issues" and document the missing packages on
RC2
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.5R/qa.sgml,v 1.1 2002/01/12 13:29:27 murray Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.5R/qa.sgml,v 1.2 2002/01/17 06:04:59 bmah Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "Testing Guide for 4.5-RELEASE">
<!ENTITY email "qa">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<html>
&header;
<h3>Goals</h3>
<p>As part of our on-going effort to improve the release engineering
process, we have identified several areas that need significant
quality assurance testing during the release candidate phase.
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continuing (or new) capability of the system to perform correctly
when used in concert with systems from other vendors.</p>
<p>Features to explore carefully:</p>
<h3>Features to explore carefully:</h3>
<ul>
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environment might be one thing to explore, for example.<br><br></li>
<li>Once the man page change goes in (which I think it should) we'll want
some basic testing of the man command.<br><br></li>
some basic testing of the man command. <strong>Update:</strong>
This change proved too controversial for introduction this late in
the release cycle, and so it will not be included with FreeBSD
4.5.<br><br></li>
<li>cdboot. Late in the release cycle, a new implementation of the
CD-based boot loader was introduced. This should generally
improve support for booting or installing from CD, but this change
requires testing on a variety of architectures and devices.<br><br></li>
requires testing on a variety of architectures and devices.
<strong>Update:</strong> Thanks to everyone who helped test this
functionality. A number of users reported problems booting with
this new loader, so this will not be used for FreeBSD 4.5.<br><br></li>
<li>Sysinstall module loading. In order to make room for more
devices on the boot floppy, a number of wireless Ethernet device
drivers were moved over to the MFSROOT floppy in the form of
loadable kernel modules. We would like to see this functionality
tested thoroughly before the final release.<br><br></li>
<li>ATA code. The ATA driver has been updated to support 48bit
addressing and has been tested to work with at least one 160GB IDE
drive. Further testing with very large IDE drives is
necessary.<br><br></li>
</ul>
<p>The <a href="../../relnotes.html">release notes</a> will always be a good place to look for things to
test. There are a number of new drivers, including if_em, which
would probably benefit from more exposure. Please report bugs to
the <a href="mailto:qa@FreeBSD.org">qa@FreeBSD.org</a> list, and/or
via send-pr with a heads up to the qa list.</p>
<p>The <a href="../../relnotes.html">release notes</a> will always be
a good place to look for things to test. There are a number of new
drivers, including <tt>if_em</tt>, which would probably benefit from
more exposure. Please report bugs to the <a
href="mailto:qa@FreeBSD.org">qa@FreeBSD.org</a> list, and/or via
send-pr with a heads up to the qa list.</p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<p><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386">4.5
Release Candidate 2</a> was released on January 18. The
<tt>fvwm2</tt>, <tt>unzip</tt>, and <tt>Gnome-Sawfish</tt> packages
are not included on the ISO image due to build failures. This will
be solved for the third (and hopefully final) release candidate.</p>
&footer;
</body>