From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 3 17:51:51 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBE41431C6C for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C4518727A for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:51:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from leaf.local (unknown [88.202.132.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08113E50E for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/08113E50E; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on HP Computer that is using software RAID 5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20190102222619.c63f20f0.freebsd@edvax.de> <6d05c736-8020-4963-fe29-3e6bd9110fe3@FreeBSD.org> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <8a1d9b31-8dc7-753c-8d37-1eed2d0bd06a@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:51:47 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6C4518727A X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.98 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[FreeBSD.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.980,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20712, ipnet:81.2.64.0/18, country:GB]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:51:51 -0000 On 03/01/2019 17:20, Carmel NY wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:00:36 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated: > >> Nope. So long as you have Internet access available, then you can use >> the 'Boot Only' disk image for FreeBSD 12 in exactly the same way. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew > > Thank you Matthew, I was worried that things had changed. I like > installing from the net. Also, hopefully I am getting the latest > versions, although that is probably not true. I know that Microsoft > does that, but I am not really sure how FreeBSD handles it. > If you download the installer image for FreeBSD-12.0 then that's exactly what you'll get as the base system: FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE. You would then need to run freebsd-update(8) or similar after installation to get any subsequently issued security or errata patches. By contrast, with pkgs you would always be getting the latest available version available from the repository, although remember that the default for a -RELEASE system is to use the quarterly package set, so "latest available" could mean (at worst) "3 months behind the current upstream version." Given that at the time of writing this e-mail the 2019Q1 branch is only 3 days old, right now everything is still pretty much up to date compared to the latest packages. Cheers, Matthew