Getting old versions of FreeBSD

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Jun 5 13:59:02 UTC 2009


In response to Frederique Rijsdijk <frederique at isafeelin.org>:
> 
> For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The
> ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28?

That code is still in the version control system, all you need to do is
configure cvsup to fetch it and rebuild your system.

Instructions:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

Use the RELENG_4_7, since p28 was the last patch on the 4.7 branch.

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