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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:02:57 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20000613100257.M18462@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <3946685F.12F8D2F@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:59:11PM -0400
References:  <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20000613092724.J18462@fw.wintelcom.net> <3946685F.12F8D2F@wmptl.com>

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* Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> [000613 10:00] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > * 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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> 
> That would be for 4.0-STABLE, this person has asked where to find
> 3.4-STABLE, read their message above.

If he want's a _real_ -stable then he'll get 4.0.

-Alfred


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