From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 9 10:24:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f95.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C652837B7B8 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:24:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 45425 invoked by uid 0); 9 Mar 2000 18:24:10 -0000 Message-ID: <20000309182410.45424.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:24:10 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD4.0-RC3 install Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 13:24:10 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I got the install floppies from the ftp directory that you listed. When the install came to a point where it asked for the ftp site to get the distribution, it listed a "primary" site (ftp.freebsd.org, I believe) and several other mirror sites, one of which was the current snapshot site. The message on this screen said that only the primary site was guaranteed to have all releases, so I tried that. The install program returned immediately saying that it couldn't find the files. So I tried the snapshot site, and it worked. I believe that I may have even seen a March 8th date at somepoint also. In any case, I completely understand that special proceedures would be warranted for Release Candidates, resulting in a mismatch with the message on the "pick an ftp transfer site" screen -- and an erroneous assumption on my part that the snapshot site was the next best thing. My only desire right now is to get this right. So, I am now wondering: 1- What did I miss in not getting the "local distribution?" (I searched freebsd.org to no avail) and what else might I have missed? 2- Is there any easy and/or correct way to recover (/stand/sysinstall?, CVSup?), or should I just reinstall? John >From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" >To: "John Daniels" >CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: FBSD4.0-RC3 install >Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:01:37 -0800 > > > Hi: > > I did an install of 4.0-RC3 last night and found the following: > > > > 1: Unable to transfer the local distribution from > > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/Snapshots/i386 > >Because it's not there. I listed the URLs I listed *very >specifically* and that is the ONLY location you can get this from. >Just ignore current.freebsd.org for the purposes of these release >candidates please. > >- Jordan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message