FWIW, a datapoint.

[Gary Kline]

Hopefully no one will face this, but the only way around getting
past pcbsd seems to be via an over-the-wire upgrade.  The
8.0-bootonly.iso for the i386 failed to boot.  About two hours
ago tho i was able to csup ports from its 07jan to 10may status. 
Next I will pull over the stable-cvsup stuff and see if I can
fire off a build.   hope this works.  the kybd is hard to use.  
[etc.]

gary


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