The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
- support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory
- support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails
- csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository
- Gnome updated to 2.26, KDE updated to 4.2.2
- sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors
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The purpose of the ISO images provided as part of the release are as follows:
- dvd1
This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages, and the documentation. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.
- disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs
disc1 contains the base FreeBSD operating system and a few pre-built packages. disc2 and disc3 contain more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to CDROM sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation. livefs contains support for booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode but does not support doing an install from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install. docs contains the documentation.
- bootonly
This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.
Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not recognize the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off the next boot device). All affected machines did see the other discs as bootable. If you have a machine with that problem booting off either bootonly or livefs and then swapping in disc1 once sysinstall starts should work.
