From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 10: 3: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8118C37BF9B for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5DH2we18472; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:02:57 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE Message-ID: <20000613100257.M18462@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20000613092724.J18462@fw.wintelcom.net> <3946685F.12F8D2F@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3946685F.12F8D2F@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:59:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nathan Vidican [000613 10:00] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > * Panos GEVROS [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 > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message