From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 7:20:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta04.mta.everyone.net (reports.everyone.net [216.200.145.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B9437B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta04.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D4D4ED77; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id EAFC136F9; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:20:28 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:20:28 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Ossei To: mij@osdn.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE Branch Reply-To: ben@cahostnet.net X-Originating-Ip: [162.6.224.88] Message-Id: <20010206152028.EAFC136F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's all I needed to hear so I'll stay away from it. Thx --- Jim Mock > wrote: >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 _____________________________________________________________ ========GET YOUR FREE E-MAIL============ http://freemail.cahostnet.net Web Hosting http://www.cahostnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message