Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Atkinson <Adam.Atkinson@damovo.com> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.7 DVD from FreeBSDMall seems strange Message-ID: <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20021202154412.GG20500@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:54:35AM -0000, Adam Atkinson wrote: > > I have FreeBSDMall's DVD of 4.7, and booting from it causes > > it to claim that the boot floppy and FreeBSD version don't match. > > > I saw this too, when attempting to launch a live filesystem > from it. It seems a bit strange because DVD has a special > "CD_VERSION = any" in its /cdrom.inf. The reasoning for this > is because the disk also contains the 5.0-CURRENT snapshot. Yes, this was to avoid confusion when installing the CURRENT snapshot. It would look fairly confusing when a message popped up saying the disc was for 4.7 but the Sysinstall expects 5.0. > > Proceeding anyway leads to, amongst other things, linux compatibility > > package 6.something going on, which is the wrong version for 4.7 > > > This seems to be a matter of the missing NO_LATEST_LINK in > ports/emulators/linux_base-6, and because linux_base-6 is listed > after linux_base in ports/emulators/Makefile. Looks like this problem pops up only in the DVD since it has both versions of linux_base. I would imagine an FTP install would yield the same results. You should be able to select it from the packages menu in your next installation. > > > Is there something wrong on the DVD, or should I not try booting from > > it? It's perfectly fine to boot from. Nothing to worry about. - chern To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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