Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: media@mail1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, charon@freethought.org Subject: Looking for 3.1 STABLE (was: Newbie Questions) Message-ID: <v03130300b35104892038@[209.150.36.14]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990429231125.00a52290@mail> References: <v03130300b34eafcc5b8d@[209.150.34.97]> <19990429221516.A25381@austin.rr.com>
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At 11:11 PM -0700 4/29/99, charon@freethought.org wrote: > >At 01:42 AM 4/30/99 -0400, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > >>1. I wish to install 3.1 STABLE, yet the only 3.1 I could find at >>ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD was in releases/i386/. Is that the right one?? >>When I go to FreeBSD-stable/ I see packaging, ports, src, sup and >>supfile.cvsvp, but nothing such as bin, which would be necessary. > >You can install 3.1-RELEASE and upgrade by source later (via ctm or cvsup), >or you could install a snapshot (basically a binary release of -STABLE at >that point - see ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/). First and foremost, thank you for your help! I don't know what ctm or cvsup are, or how to upgrade by source later. I tried to get to usr/share/doc/handbook and usr/share/doc/FAQ to learn more, but it said "Permission Denied." Is the "source" I would use be the contents of FreeBSD-stable/src?? I originally set out to get 3.1-STABLE, but I couldn't find it in the folder labeled "STABLE" (see above), so I was lead to believe that 3.1-RELEASE was stable. Does that make sense?? I went to ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ and I found a list of subdirectories with names beginning with either 3.1 or 4.0 followed by a date. Which one is 3.1-STABLE?? Or are none of them 3.1-STABLE?? Are all of them?!?! I was under the impression that there was only one 3.1-STABLE and that "snapshots" were periodically archived accumulations of the development and further revision of that branch. I read the FAQ, but I still think I'm confused. I received an email today saying, "The FreeBSD toolkit contains the latest binary "snapshot" releases of 2.2-stable, 3.1-stable and 4.0-current as of March 27th, 1999." So I'm thinking this means 3.1-STABLE exists. Where can I get 3.1-STABLE?? Do I have to download everything all over again, or are some of the files (perhaps man or dict) the same for both 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-STABLE?? I'm thinking I need to make new floppies as well (see below). Also, if there already is a 3.1-STABLE, why would someone want a possibly buggy 3.1-RELEASE?? Despite what I can't find at ftp.FreeBSD.ORG, I would think that the tested and announced stable version would be more popular. So, I still think I'm confused. I just want the most reliable OS. >>I booted up using kern.flp and mfsboot.flp from floppies, but when I choose >>to load the rest from a DOS partition the installer tells me it can't find >>any of them. There doesn't seem to be a prompt for a file path. What am I >>doing wrong?? > >Look at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT. >Basically, there's a bug in 3.1, so just put everything in C:\bin\*, >C:\src\*, etc., and don't use the \FREEBSD directory. Thank you :) It says, "The instructions are correct but the code was wrong in 3.1-RELEASE, sysinstall looking directly under C:\ (e.g. C:\BIN\ . . .) or under C:\RELEASES\ (C:\RELEASES\BIN) and so on. Fixed in 3.1-STABLE." When I first read that I didn't remember it because I thought I _was_ installing 3.1-STABLE. So, I put all of the files I downloaded into C:\ and the install worked. The boot manager works, and when I choose FreeBSD it looks like UNIX, but I think I have the wrong version. THANX!! PEACE OUT :) MARK P.S. This is for a Compaq Pentium 133 w/64M RAM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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