From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 12:19:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DADA37B402 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:18:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08537; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:18:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA13819; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:18:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13814; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:18:16 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Olli Jarvinen Cc: Andreas Brodmann , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: 4.2-stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it's easier to use cvsup I think, just because it seems faster to me. :-) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park.=09 | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Olli Jarvinen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >=20 > > FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE is what you get when you take 4.2-RELEASE and then u= se > > cvsup to update to the latest -STABLE line. there is no -STABLE ISO or > > directory because you must update to it using sourcecode. >=20 > It seems that cvsup thing is the standard way to go with STABLE. > But there *is* a STABLE downloadable, and that's what I installed: >=20 > >From the main page -> Getting FreeBSD -> Handbook chapter on=20 > obtaining FreeBSD -> FTP sites -> Mirror sites database -> > i386 snaps available -- and there we have a page with the three > latest CURRENTs and the three latest STABLEs! :) There seems to be > just one mirror site, though, but it is there anyway. >=20 > --=20 > Olli J=E4rvinen mail: oltaja00@otol.fi > "There is the easy way, and there is the right way." >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message