From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 10:42: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98CDA37C00D for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from sporty.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:41:55 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk Subject: Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:27:24 PDT." <20000613092724.J18462@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:41:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1594.960918115@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG looking a bit closer it seems that only 4.0-STABLE directories exist there: ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ no such thing like releng3.FreeBSD.org seems to exist so if one wants to go 3.4-STABLE he has to do it by source ? Cheers Panos | |You need to download floppies from ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/ | * 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message