From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 21:59:11 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 3993A16A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:59:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459BF43D55 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:59:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so14476uge for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:59:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jmPXAYroXNAsxBAhWjp3t90x18T0X3q5UaXqJLJALZ7nIk4DWsKyl+/LDGu4qBaaRxK4zPhkC8BTp47T9xgYAPHYIFrNIK3fnigcELs7Bz0sSPqpeZtblUGokHNTRSFrUEgAn824lqKqrIVMHzbNPUNk+7cim5udfJMQUNaGWtk= Received: by 10.49.36.1 with SMTP id o1mr1032304nfj; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.5.15 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:52:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5ceb5d550601311352t594582c5l2d9434481b0a69b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:52:41 +0100 From: "Daniel A." To: "A. Clausen" In-Reply-To: <43DFD9A5.9040801@alberni.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43DFD9A5.9040801@alberni.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: 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 21:59:11 -0000 Yeah, the easiest workaround is like this: - Download ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.0/6.0-RELEAS= E-i386-bootonly.iso - Burn it to a CD - Boot it - Make sure to select FTP as source. - Install =3D) On 1/31/06, A. Clausen wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >