Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:27:24 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE Message-ID: <20000613092724.J18462@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:24:45PM %2B0100 References: <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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* Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk> [000613 07:26] wrote: > 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? You need to download floppies from ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/ -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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