From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 13:41:25 2002 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 85AB837B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C816743E3B for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g8MKfMW33034; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:41:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g8MKfK133026; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:41:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:41:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: chauncey smith Cc: Subject: Re: Packages in stand/sysinstal In-Reply-To: <20020922185143.95089.qmail@web80314.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020922163841.C32687-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Run /stand/sysinstall Select Options Change the FreeBSD version to something supported (4.6.2-RELEASE for example) then retry the package installation from your cd-rom or from an ftp site. There is no 4.7-PRERELEASE index so the package add program can't find it. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, chauncey smith wrote: > I recently CVSuped my system to 4.7 prerelease. I > remaded the world and even stand/sysinstall. I tried > to add some packages to my pc and I get the following > error. > > Warning: Can't find the `4.7-PRERELEASE' distribution > on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different > server for the release you are trying to fetch or go > to the Options menu and to set the release name to > explicitly match what's available on ftp.freebsd.org > (or set to "any"). > Would you like to select another FTP > server? > > I tried agien with the any option and get the same > results can someone help me fix this problem? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message