Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:34:34 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: kasturi@teil.soft.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current version wanted Message-ID: <199606252034.UAA02167@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960625193413.29807A-100000@teil.soft.net> (kasturi@teil.soft.net)
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>>>>> "K.V.S. Sankaram" <kasturi@teil.soft.net> writes: > > We are presently working with FREEBSD version 2.1.0. We would like to > > install the current version. What is the version currently available ? Is it > > available in a compiled form ? OR have we to download the source code and > > compile it ? 2.1.0 is the latest released version; 2.1.5 is expected to be released next month, and will be mainly bug-fixes to 2.1.0. > In fact, when we visited the ftp site, we found a directory by the name > > FREEBSD-CURRENT. It was not containing the binary code. What is this directory > > for ? What is the version it referring to ? This is the code currently under development, which will form version 2.2 of FreeBSD. This is distributed as source code, which needs an already-installed system to compile it. Periodically, "snapshots" of this development code are made available, which can be installed from the FTP site in the same way as release versions. These are kept in a directory called something like 060196-SNAP (from memory). > Does 2.1.0 version support PCI bus for ethernet cards ? Yes, a number of PCI ethernet cards are supported in 2.1.0. Please see the HARDWARE.TXT file in the root directory of the distribution for details. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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