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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:27:24 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE
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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


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