From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 13:14:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024E537B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4482243F85 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h4KKEbV20178; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:14:37 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "hetnik wired" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:14:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305201314.37132.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: freeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:14:44 -0000 On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:55 pm, hetnik wired wrote: > Hello, i'm going to be making ISOs of the Free BSD 4.8 OS and noticed that > their isn't a disc 3 or 4 on the ftp in the ISO 4.8 image directory. I was > wondering if I can just take the 4.7 disc 3 and 4, make them into ISO and > if they will still be compatible with the 4.8 version? I thought this might > work due to that the 3rd and 4th disc are just 3rd party packages. If this > isn't possible, does one of the FTP have a 4.8 version 3rd and 4th disc? > Thanks for your time, bye > > -Hetnik Well, if you believe that the port system is constantly changing like I do, then the 4.7 discs are hoplessly out of date. Many of the port packages that were on the 4.8 discs are now out of date. I am currently dealing with an upgrade to kde-3.1.2. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html