From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 7:35:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE4637B416 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 07:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 165qRq-0002dN-01; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:35:02 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165qQ4-00028e-00; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:33:12 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Paul '" Cc: Subject: Re: Installing CURRENT References: Date: 19 Nov 2001 15:33:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86itc6vkqw.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Paul '" writes: > How do you install a 5.0 CURRENT distribution with this diskettes of an > older version? > > I have tried going to the options section of the install screen and changing > the name there from 4.3-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT ( i have older 4.3 diskettes) > but that does nothing for me as when it gets to install time the correct > files cannot be found. Your best bet is to install whatever version you have disks for and then cvsup your source tree to current. Then just make world and off you go. -- - Wayne Pascoe | You cannot apply a technological freebsd@molemanarmy.com | solution to a sociological problem. http://www.molemanarmy.com | (Edwards' Law) | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message