Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 06:50:33 +0200 From: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting any jdk to work with latest freeBSDisimpossible? Message-ID: <200304130450.h3D4oXk13863@thunder.trej.net> In-Reply-To: <20030413025055.GA26497@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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> > > This means that your FreeBSD *isnt'* the latest. You need to upgrade > > > to 4.8-RELEASE. Without various changes made to the system > > libraries, > > > you won't be able to run JDK1.4 correctly. > > > -- > > > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > > > > > > In that case freeBSD has even more problems, I download floppy images > > from a path including RELEASE-5 and then made the whole installation > > from the net. > > 5-RELEASE is a not a production-system release, as it states at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html > > You should stick with 4.8-RELEASE, which is a "supported" release. Then I still wonder why the the FreeBSD handbook is linking me to the R5 floppies. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre .html). I must admit that except from this JDK issue I have found freeBSD extremely userfriendly and straight forward compared to debian, redhat, slackware and a bunch of small obscure linux dists I've tried.
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