From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 7:59:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E75C37B419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:59:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAJFxD987035; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:59:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:59:13 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Paul '" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing CURRENT Message-ID: <20011119105912.A86949@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from smak_420@hotmail.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:00:27AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Short answer: you don't. You need to get a -current boot floppy set. There are so many differences between -stable and -current that, as a rule, there's no way this will work. And if you get it to install, you won't be happy. On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:00:27AM -0500, Paul ' wrote: > How do you install a 5.0 CURRENT distribution with this diskettes of an > older version? > > I have tried going to the options section of the install screen and changing > the name there from 4.3-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT ( i have older 4.3 diskettes) > but that does nothing for me as when it gets to install time the correct > files cannot be found. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message