From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 2 19:04:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 58A5E16A424 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1ABB43D45 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:04:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D86D45877 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:04:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:04:37 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: cAF2Pe1PhHbvT43HfZ68g9kNWHTFt4XsnDijdkGmgNo+ 1144004677 Received: from [192.168.193.165] (unknown [12.176.108.194]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7EB6F for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:04:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44302052.3010600@fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:04:50 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200604021624.k32GOhhn086488@dc.cis.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <200604021624.k32GOhhn086488@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ISO Image for FreeBSD5.4 that is Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:04:43 -0000 Martin McCormick wrote: > The FreeBSD site has an installation ISO image for FreeBSD5.4 >but it is dated last May. There have been several core security >updates since then. should I be looking in a different place to find >a stable 5.x ISO image that is current? > > Thank you very much. > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >Systems Engineer >OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Martin: You'll need to install 5.4 from the iso, then use cvsup to update your sources with the updates. Then read the handbook and /usr/src/UPDATING for the instructions on how to recompile your world and kernel. Your other option is to wait for 5.5 which should be out "any day now". Patrick