From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jan 4 16:59:50 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 BEE5E1431BA7 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 16:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:c4ea:bd49:619b:6cb3]) (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 5193370C42 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 16:59:50 +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 C8A34E6A7 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2019 16:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/C8A34E6A7; 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> <8a1d9b31-8dc7-753c-8d37-1eed2d0bd06a@FreeBSD.org> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <61b4143c-1991-805e-4b4e-8ddb3c20b032@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 16:59:46 +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-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: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:59:51 -0000 On 04/01/2019 13:52, Carmel NY wrote: > According to my FreeBSD PC, the latest version is "12.0-RELEASE-p1". I > have scoured the FreeBSD website; however I do not see a downloadable > ISO available for the version. So, unless I am mistaken, I would have > to install the Stable version and then upgrade. Personally, and I mean > no offense to anyone, but I find that to be total "BS". Obviously, your > opinion may differ. Ah... Patch levels are not releases. That is, for an errata or security fix they do not regenerate the entire set of release images and put them on the website. So, yeah -- you'll find installer images for FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE but you will then need to apply the patches to get to 12.0-RELEASE-p1 The reason for that is principally because the pN patch levels are mostly used for security fixes, and it's important to get those out PDQ. The process of building all of the installer images simply takes too long. Indeed, there was an occasion fairly recently when a pretty serious SA came out pretty much in the middle of building the release bits, and the upshot was the release was delayed a week or so and eventually came out as X.Y-RELEASE-p1. Also be aware that the terminology 'stable' means something completely different to most FreeBSD people than the way you're apparently using it. '12.0-STABLE' is a development branch which is called STABLE because it is meant to run stably, not because it doesn't change. This is a different usage to much of the rest of the world. What can I say? The FreeBSD project does things a bit differently, and it isn't going to change the way it has been doing stuff for the last 20+ years just for the sake of conformity to some else's arbitrary nomenclature. Cheers, Matthew