Getting old versions of FreeBSD
Frederique Rijsdijk
frederique at isafeelin.org
Sat Jun 6 06:36:55 UTC 2009
Bill Moran wrote:
> 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.
Indeed they are all still available. Very nice, I'm upgrading to p28
now. Thanks!
-- Frederique
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