From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 01:31:49 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 7F6C837B404 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 01:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C5D43F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 01:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09269 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:29:59 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030522152608.00a2cb40@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:31:08 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt In-Reply-To: <44n0hg3uov.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030521174604.00a28720@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.0.20030521174604.00a28720@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE missing info 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: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:31:49 -0000 At 03:34 AM 5/22/03, you wrote: >Roger Merritt writes: > > > Because of a power supply problem that is taking a long time to fix, I > > recently had to set up a replacement server (gateway for a > > LAN). Naturally I chose to set up FreeBSD. Since it was urgent and > > ordering a CD by mail would take at least a week, I downloaded by > > ftp. Hope I don't have to do that again soon. Anyway, I followed the > > instructions in the Handbook, which pointed me to > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RELEASE/floppies/. OK, > > I noticed that "5.0-RELEASE" in there, but I've seen a number of > > comments in this list that 5.0 is going to be the next STABLE so > > figured I might as well go ahead. > >Sounds like you missed: >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html > >5.x *will* be -STABLE some day, but not until at least 5.2. Ah, there it is. Yes, I missed that before. Thanks for pointing me to it. Now I wonder why the Handbook points people who are installing FreeBSD to the 5.0 floppies. Well, it's no big thing, and I could have found the 4.8 floppies if I'd been a little less lazy. -- Roger