Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:18:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is it done? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114211745.28188Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.961114164357.7909L-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, S(pork) wrote: > I saw a message a few days back (before the internic canned my domain > without even asking for money first...) stating that -stable was just > about finished. I'd like to grab the stable source tree and keep it on a > local machine here for convenience, so I was wondering about two things: > > 1. Is it finished? 2.1.5-STABLE is "finished" as in lifetime. It's culmination will be 2.1.6-RELEASE. Then we'll start a new -STABLE for 2.2 when it comes out. > 2. Is there a better way to install than using sysinstall and then > cvsup-ing 2.1.5 -release to -stable. I feel like I'm probably missing > some simple way to do a direct -stable install... Not really, sysinstall does it for you pretty much. Just use the 'upgrade' option on the boot floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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