From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 20:35:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2784437B406 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-34-245.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.34.245]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA25624; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:34:52 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <008a01c13f29$9e469780$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "BSD Freak" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <441f8543fad4.43fad4441f85@mbox.com.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 - CURRENT Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:33:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > Does I have all the FreeBSD-RELEASE CD's ISO's etc... What is the best > way to get a machine running FreeBSD 5.0 - CURRENT. > > As far as I have seen there are no ISO available for download, only the > source. > > Is there a way to upgrade a 4.3 machine to 5.0 - CURRENT or do I have > to compile the binaries and run a 5.0 installation. > > Does this have anything to do with make world? > > It would be great if someone could steer me into the right direction... I think the basic rule says that if you have to ask that question, you shouldn't be running -CURRENT. -CURRENT is the development branch of FreeBSD and not for production use - sometimes it won't compile, sometimes it will compile but won't boot (according to the handbook, if I remember correctly, I don't run it myself :+) ), and it's generally more "dangerous" than the -STABLE branch. That said, if you do want to run it the only way of doing so is CVSup'ing to the -CURRENT tree, then following the instructions in the handbook at www.freebsd.org for making, building and installing the world, as far as I know. Hope this helps, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message