From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 20:10:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5127310656F4 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 20:10:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from kientzle.com (kientzle.com [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EF58FC1A for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 20:10:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by kientzle.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) id n4BKAgIq063192; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from dark.x.kientzle.com (fw2.kientzle.com [10.123.1.2]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id b7ydp2zqtqdg4y2sab7b9su2qi; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4A088642.3030402@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:10:42 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090409 SeaMonkey/1.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk References: <4A04EA46.20106@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD 8.0-Current-2009-amd64-dvd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 20:10:44 -0000 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > I know that current snapshots should not be used in any production purposes > . > > My intention was only to install it , run some programs , and if I get a > feeling that supplying an information to current developers may be useful to > send an e-mail about my experiences . > > I think such installation and test results would be useful to current > developers if I am not wrongly assumed that . Feedback is always appreciated. If you'd like to work with -CURRENT, you should definitely learn how to use the FreeBSD "ports" system, which builds third-party software from source. As I mentioned earlier, "packages" are not always available for -CURRENT. The FreeBSD -CURRENT snapshot DVDs are actually a pretty tough place to start. They are automatically generated from whatever happens to be in SVN that day; as a result, they're mostly useful as a regular test of the release-building scripts and somewhat useful for testing the installer. For testing the rest of the system, I suggest that you learn how to update the core system from source code. There are quite a few articles and blog posts explaining how to do this. It also helps to watch the freebsd-current mailing list so you know when things are relatively calm. Tim