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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:27:24 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation Options -RELEASE -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20000613092724.J18462@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:24:45PM %2B0100
References:  <1424.960906285@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

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* Panos GEVROS <P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk> [000613 07:26] wrote:
> i'm trying to install FreeBSD-3.4-STABLE by specifying "-STABLE" in the 
> Options instead of "-RELEASE"
> i have tried several sites (including Primary) and the installation complains 
> that several distributions "bin man ...." was not installed because they are 
> not available in the installation media i have chosen, in practice it doesn't 
> install anything
> 
> i thought one can install STABLE without having to go into RELEASE first and 
> then do it from source, is this true? if yes any possible reasons for this 
> behavior?

You need to download floppies from ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/

-Alfred


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