From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 21:42:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F37316A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:42:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techlists@alberni.net) Received: from mail.alberni.net (mail.alberni.net [64.141.6.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACB643D6D for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:42:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techlists@alberni.net) Received: from [192.168.0.15] [64.141.6.11] by mail.alberni.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A9A62FBA0084; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:41:58 -0800 Message-ID: <43DFD9A5.9040801@alberni.net> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:41:57 -0800 From: "A. Clausen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Declude-Sender: techlists@alberni.net [64.141.6.11] X-Declude-Spoolname: Dd9a62fba0084824b.smd X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail for spam. Subject: Trying to Upgrade 5.2.1 to later version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:42:08 -0000 I'm a complete newbie to FreeBSD (coming from Linux). I bought (for cheap) a boxed set of FreeBSD 5.2.1, and am looking to upgrade it for XOrg and the latest version of Postfix. When I try to use sysinstall, I get the following error: Warning: Can't find the `5.2.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). Now, I'm pretty sure that the problem here is the age of the release (I guess two years old), but I was wondering if there was a workaround. -- A. Clausen