From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 05:22:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DEF16A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E7D43D41 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:22:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2A7F08565C; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:52:53 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:52:53 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Charlie Sorsby Message-ID: <20041212052253.GA38962@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200412112326.QAA01128@quail.sorsby.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x0PBmTWHB3bjoOVh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412112326.QAA01128@quail.sorsby.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:22:56 -0000 --x0PBmTWHB3bjoOVh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > Is the installer for freeBSD 4.5 broken? > > I've long procrastinated updating to a more recent version of > freeBSD, mainly because I hate trying to get things back the way I > had them afterwards. > > Consequently, I've been running 3.4 for quite a long while. Today, > I finally decided to bite the bullet and update to 4.5, the most > recent CD that I have. That's ancient, nearly three years old. I'm almost tempted to say "after two years the installer stops working". But in any case, you really shouldn't be installing such old software. Don't you have the facility to download a more recent ISO? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --x0PBmTWHB3bjoOVh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBu9WtIubykFB6QiMRAjb2AJ9vXonWWBxQVdp/hg+AlN61m6xVWwCfQtM0 U2iGLfeU0arG1Qb97Lu3p5I= =Ci+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x0PBmTWHB3bjoOVh--