Which version

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:39:13PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:32 +0200, Christian Zachariasen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Russell Schoen <schoenr at mrcable.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Do you have a version that will run with an AMD Sempron 3100+, 1.8Ghz, 32
> > > bit, X86 family processor?
> 
> > Please do some reading before asking questions on the mailing list. The
> > FreeBSD Handbook (google it) is an excellent resource and will
> > answer most of your questions about FreeBSD.
> > 
> > 
> > But to answer this specific question: Yes, it's called FreeBSD. Just get the
> > latest release (7.0) and install it.
> > 
> > Christian Zachariasen
> 
> And your answer doesn't answer the OP's question.
> 
> I think the OP was asking which "platform" to use.
> 
> 7.0 is the stable release

No.   7.0 is currently the RELEASE release.

> and you need the i386 platform.

Yup.

> 
> something like 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso is what you need -- burn this
> image to CD and then boot off the CD.

That looks right.

You want the directory:
   /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0

and the image:
   7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
within that directory.

  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  

If you want the STABLE images
They are in:  /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/_month_    such as:
                   /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200805

Then you probably want image:  7.0-STABLE-200805-i386-disc1.iso  if you 
want to install the most recent STABLE release, but that is not 
the RELEASE version.

Maybe it is an unfortunate choice of words and naming conventions, but
that is the way it is.

////jerry


> 
> The handbook is still an excellent resource.
> http://www.freebsd.org/handbook
> 
> 
> good luck, feel free to ask questions, after searching a bit.  It makes
> us understand the question better and quicker response.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
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