Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:27:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Joseph LaJeunesse-LaLumiere <joelight@team.inter.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 4.4 RC3 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109051924190.19401-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905185854.02ef4ec0@pop.tiac.net>
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> > My name is Joe LaLumiere, Systems Admin for Inter.net, formerly TIAC. We > have been using FreeBSD on our servers for some time and like your product. > > I had installed 4.4 RC1 on Thursday successfully. Unfortunately, I had to > perform a reinstall on Tuesday only to find that RC1 no longer existed. I > then went and installed 4.3 instead. The security expert then informed me > that 4.3 contains many bugs and to try and install 4.4 RC3. Well, the only security bugs I know of in 4.3 are the rmuser bug, and the telnetd bug... which can be avoided by not using rmuser or telnetd. > > After many failed attempts (using several different mirror sites as well), > I'm writing to let you know what I have encountered. The installation gets > to the point where it is transferring the scontrib distribution and dies at > chuck 68 of 134. 4.3 installed fine on this same system. > > Can you let me know whether this is a real issue or just something I'm > experiencing? Also, is there someway to get 4.4 RC3 installed? > Just install 4.3 and use cvsup with the config file I've attached to update to the latest -STABLE sourcecode, and rebuild your kernel and cd /usr/src and make world (Which will rebuild everything except the kernel). here is the configuration for cvsup; just put it in a file and type: cvsup -g filename here's the config: *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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