From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 3:43:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FC937B41D for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020220114337.FAJG1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:43:37 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1KBgMJ25896; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:42:22 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jesse Geddis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stable install Message-ID: <20020220034221.B48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sgeine@yahoo.com on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:44:29AM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:44:29AM -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > why am I not able to do a FTP install off the -STABLE branch? when I > specify 4.0-STABLE in the 'release name' under sysinstall options I > get an error. is this something I have to do with CVS instead? I can > do ftp installs of 3.5.1-RELEASE through 4.5-RELEASE with no problem > and that's what I've always done but I would rather use the -STABLE > branch. You can only do FTP installs of a -RELEASE. Install a minimal -RELEASE, cvsup(1) -STABLE source and build a -STABLE system. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message