From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 16:27:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EC537B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06018; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:27:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA15716; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:27:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15712; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:27:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:27:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Joseph LaJeunesse-LaLumiere Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 4.4 RC3 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905185854.02ef4ec0@pop.tiac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > > 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