From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 7:24:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B326C37BE70 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from sporty.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:24:44 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk X-Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University College London X-Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3666 X-URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Gevros/ Subject: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:24:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm trying to install FreeBSD-3.4-STABLE by specifying "-STABLE" in the Options instead of "-RELEASE" i have tried several sites (including Primary) and the installation complains that several distributions "bin man ...." was not installed because they are not available in the installation media i have chosen, in practice it doesn't install anything i thought one can install STABLE without having to go into RELEASE first and then do it from source, is this true? if yes any possible reasons for this behavior? Thanks Panos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message