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Date:      Tue, 21 May 2013 11:39:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tim Nelson <tnelson@rockbochs.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Installing 8.1-RELEASE - Problems via FTP
Message-ID:  <4402634.106182.1369154383402.JavaMail.root@rockbochs.com>
In-Reply-To: <15887170.106166.1369154292197.JavaMail.root@rockbochs.com>

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Greetings-

I have need to install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 to build some packages. My usual method of installation is via the *-bootonly.iso, pulling the install from FTP. However, it appears since 8.1-RELEASE is old and deprecated, none of the mirrors have the files available anymore to use during the installer.

So, how do I proceed:

1. Does anyone have a proper URL to put into the installer? I already tried ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org but I think there is additional path info needed
2. Should I install from the full CD or DVDs? If successful, would I still have problems pulling the ports tree for 8.1-RELEASE?

Thanks!

--Tim



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