Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:29 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Adam Atkinson <Adam.Atkinson@damovo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.ORG>, Trevor Johnson <trevor@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.7 DVD from FreeBSDMall seems strange Message-ID: <20021203184629.GA51395@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com> References: <20021202154412.GG20500@sunbay.com> <20021202233540.K68995-100000@ns1.freebsdmall.com>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:39:14PM -0800, Chern Lee wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >=20 > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:54:35AM -0000, Adam Atkinson wrote: > > > I have FreeBSDMall's DVD of 4.7, and booting from it causes > > > it to claim that the boot floppy and FreeBSD version don't match. > > > > > I saw this too, when attempting to launch a live filesystem > > from it. It seems a bit strange because DVD has a special > > "CD_VERSION =3D any" in its /cdrom.inf. The reasoning for this > > is because the disk also contains the 5.0-CURRENT snapshot. >=20 > Yes, this was to avoid confusion when installing the CURRENT snapshot. It > would look fairly confusing when a message popped up saying the disc was > for 4.7 but the Sysinstall expects 5.0. >=20 The real question here is why it still doesn't like it? > > > Proceeding anyway leads to, amongst other things, linux compatibility > > > package 6.something going on, which is the wrong version for 4.7 > > > > > This seems to be a matter of the missing NO_LATEST_LINK in > > ports/emulators/linux_base-6, and because linux_base-6 is listed > > after linux_base in ports/emulators/Makefile. >=20 > Looks like this problem pops up only in the DVD since it has both > versions of linux_base. I would imagine an FTP install would yield the > same results. You should be able to select it from the packages menu in > your next installation. >=20 Yep, just a matter of missing NO_LATEST_LINK in the linux_base-6 port. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97PwFUkv4P6juNwoRAg0dAKCHjPvwGGth2QoB/bMQHldDOD3qLQCghzYv R9pO4tWxs5lbZE8P7TW+NHU= =b4oN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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