Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:13:13 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: going stable... Message-ID: <20000510021313.A1879@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl>; from marcelo@msm.cl on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:21:05AM -0400 References: <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl>
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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:21:05AM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > Hello, > When I bought FreeBSD, I thought I was buying a stable version but they > sent me 3.3-Release (back in December). A release is actually a 'snapshot' from the stable branch of FreeBSD and is certainly 'stable'. > I have been having lots of problems with SCSI controlers, Memory > recognition etc.. > So I wa thinking of downloading a stable kernel and compiling that. In FreeBSD you are not supposed to install another kernel without installing 'world' as well; kernel+world should be in sync or otherwise you can expect problems. > So I went into /stand/sysinstall and choose FTP as instalation Media. > When into options and chose 3.0-stable as the distribution name because > that is what I found under: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/3.0-stable/ > 3.0-stable is much older then 3.3-release... > But, it told me that it could not find the release and to try "none" and so > I did and I still can't install from FTP. > What should I try? how does one install frmo FTP successfuly? > Try to find out first *why* you have problems with 3.3-release. For example: - Be sure your hardware is supported (what SCSI controller do you have?). - What kind of problems do you encounter? Is there an error message that gives a clue? If you don't really know what the problem is, you have a good chance that you will have the same problem with a later version of FreeBSD... Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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