From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 13:03:39 2003 Return-Path: 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 3478716A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C379D43F93 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031001200337.GDDW9347.out008.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:03:37 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A73EAC0C; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B6148A93A; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002701c38857$20061e30$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <1065036808.4566.37.camel@debian> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:03:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:03:36 -0500 Subject: Re: upgrading to 4 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:03:39 -0000 > What I got was 4.9 prerelease. With this version I can't use > /stand/sysinstall to install software. It keeps telling me that the FTP > server doesn't have the ports for 4.9. The ports in /usr/ports work fine > but it would be nice to use /stand/sysinstall. Why use sysinstall for this? Why not pkg_add? Also, see my answer on sysinstall below. > QUESTIONS > 1. Is 4.9 stable? 4.9-PRERELEASE is 4-STABLE > 2. Is there a way I can use /stand/sysinstall to install software? You may need to build sysinstall. cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install > 3. This system is being used at the moment. Is there any danger in using > 4.9 prerelease? I wouldn't think so. Is everything working ok? I'm using it on two machines with no problems, but of course, YMMV.