Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote:
> Is the installer for freeBSD 4.5 broken?
>
> I've long procrastinated updating to a more recent version of
> freeBSD, mainly because I hate trying to get things back the way I
> had them afterwards.
>
> Consequently, I've been running 3.4 for quite a long while.  Today,
> I finally decided to bite the bullet and update to 4.5, the most
> recent CD that I have.

That's ancient, nearly three years old.  I'm almost tempted to say
"after two years the installer stops working".  But in any case, you
really shouldn't be installing such old software.  Don't you have the
facility to download a more recent ISO?

Greg
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