From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 2 23:39:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E554737B401; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (ns1.freebsdmall.com [66.220.2.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0943E88; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chern@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2135) id C2F572E81B; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8356D2AA2B; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Chern Lee X-X-Sender: To: Adam Atkinson Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , , Murray Stokely Subject: Re: 4.7 DVD from FreeBSDMall seems strange In-Reply-To: <20021202154412.GG20500@sunbay.com> Message-ID: <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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