From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 7: 1:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B313437B503 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (1Cust25.tnt22.bos2.da.uu.net [63.28.5.25]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01996; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by guinness.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f16F0ob07091; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:00:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:00:50 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Benjamin Ossei Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE Branch Message-ID: <20010206100049.A7059@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <20010206145518.704C336F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010206145518.704C336F9@sitemail.everyone.net>; from ben@cahostnet.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:55:18AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 at 06:55:18 -0800, Benjamin Ossei wrote: > OK, read it again. I went to the ftp site to study the branches > again. I hope this is correct. There is a FreeBSD-stable which is > linked to 4.0-STABLE directory. If I was going to do an install of > freebsd and wanted to run the stable os from the gate out, (I will > follow your recommendation though)can I use the FreeBSD-stable as my > insall directory in the options? Or will I use 4.0-STABLE? Which one > will the installation be looking for. Neither. If you want to install -STABLE from the get go, you need to install a snapshot, which is a whole different story and tends to complicate things for new users, which is why I didn't mention it :-) > For now I use 4.2-RELEASE so what will it be in my scenerio? Ok, start out by reading the "synchronizing your source tree" section of the handbook. That'll tell you what you need to do. Also take a look at freebsddiary.org -- there are some articles there on make world that should help you. Go to the topics and look for upgrading FreeBSD. - jim -- jim mock O|S|D|N open source development network http://soupnazi.org/ http://osdn.com/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message