Fresh 5.4 Install, which CD?

Toomas Aas toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Wed May 11 02:47:03 PDT 2005


Kevin wrote:

> I'm a renewed FreeBSD newbie, my last use being v3.4.
> 
> I want to install 5.4 release and I downloaded both
> CDs.  My question is this:
> 
> Which CD do I boot from?  CD1 or CD2?

Short answer: CD1.

Better answer:
This is covered in release notes. Assuming you have an i386 machine, see:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/relnotes-i386.html#RELENG

It is always a good idea to look through the release notes before 
beginning the installation of new FreeBSD version.

-- 
Toomas Aas


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