From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 3 10:47: 5 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 442EC37B401; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C6243E9C; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:46:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Sunbay) with ESMTP id gB3IkcVX052057 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB3IkTFO052042; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:29 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Chern Lee Cc: Adam Atkinson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Murray Stokely , Marcel Moolenaar , Trevor Johnson Subject: Re: 4.7 DVD from FreeBSDMall seems strange Message-ID: <20021203184629.GA51395@sunbay.com> References: <20021202154412.GG20500@sunbay.com> <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:39:14PM -0800, Chern Lee wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >=20 > > 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 =3D any" in its /cdrom.inf. The reasoning for this > > is because the disk also contains the 5.0-CURRENT snapshot. >=20 > 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. >=20 The real question here is why it still doesn't like it? > > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 Yep, just a matter of missing NO_LATEST_LINK in the linux_base-6 port. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97PwFUkv4P6juNwoRAg0dAKCHjPvwGGth2QoB/bMQHldDOD3qLQCghzYv R9pO4tWxs5lbZE8P7TW+NHU= =b4oN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message