From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 6 4:18:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (elmls01.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAAB37BBFB for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 04:18:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rlyons@mediaone.net) Received: from mediaone.net (rm01-24-131-190-142.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.190.142]) by elmls01.ce.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA24851; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 06:22:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <398D49B7.EF905F04@mediaone.net> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 06:19:19 -0500 From: Roy Lyons X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Bursey Cc: -Stable Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall 4.1-stable References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Perfect, thank you very much. hopefully this helps others out there too. Bryan Bursey wrote: > Hi. > > You'll want to go to 'Options' in sysinstall and change the release name > to 4.1-RELEASE. IIRC, the ftp servers won't have 4.1-STABLE listed > (except maybe as a symlink). > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > Bryan > > On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Roy Lyons wrote: > > > alright, heres an oddity. I wanted to peruse the ports in sysinstall > > cause I am lazy and it gives me a description of each port as I put the > > cursor over it. However, with every possible ftp mirror site and with > > the primary site, I get the following: > > > > > > +---------------- User Confirmation Requested ----------------+ > > ¦ Warning: Can't CD to `4.1-STABLE' distribution on this ¦ > > ¦ FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for ¦ > > ¦ the release you're trying to fetch or go to the Options ¦ > > ¦ menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's ¦ > > ¦ available on ftp2.freebsd.org (or set to "none"). ¦ > > ¦ ¦ > > ¦ Would you like to select another FTP server? ¦ > > +-------------------------------------------------------------¦ > > ¦ [ Yes ] No ¦ > > +-------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > Anyone know what might be going on here? is it the ftp server, or is it > > my sysinstall wanking? Thanks > > > > Roy R. Lyons > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message