From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 5 23:18:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E364D37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sante.techgodz.com (mdsnwi13-vlan436-120.dsl.tds.net [66.222.30.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6993343E77 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sephtin@techgodz.com) Received: from bfree.techgodz.com (unknown [192.168.1.118]) by sante.techgodz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594C68B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:22:25 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Reply-To: sephtin@techgodz.com Organization: tgz To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with freebsd access point setup as per sysadmin mag Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:22:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020804232704.QYQF3365.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> <3D4EF960.3080900@millions.ca> In-Reply-To: <3D4EF960.3080900@millions.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208052022.23213.sephtin@techgodz.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Although I'm very new to FreeBSD (only since about 4.3 or 4.4...) I spent hours and hours figuring out how to get my system running -STABLE= =20 version. I strongly recommend the handbook first (ALWAYS)... but if you're left=20 scratching your head.. maybe I can confuse you more! ;) After I kept making the same mistakes over and over while trying to updat= e my=20 system to -STABLE.. I finally typed it up in a txt doc. At a LUG meeting= , I=20 mentioned it, and several FreeBSD newbies were interested... so I posted = it=20 on the web. I just got done updating it.. and I can gaurantee it's not=20 perfect.. but if someone can get some use out of it..... *SHRUG* http://www.techgodz.com/freebsd/docs/Upgrade/MakeWorld-current.txt If anyone has any questions about the doc, feel free to mail=20 john@techgodz.com. Also, who would I want to get in contact with to get = more=20 info about how to get involved with handbook people to try to get some=20 clarity on the handbook page for this process... ? Thanks, John On Monday 05 August 2002 05:17 pm, Stacy Millions wrote: > Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > > I am slightly new to FreeBSD, so need to know one thing. which versio= n of > > stable do I need? 4.6? or will 4.5 do. I am currently running 4.5 > > (February 2002 cd - 4 disc set) from the Freebsdmall.com folks. > > Time to RTFM. Chapter 19 of the Handbook tells you everything you need = to > know about running Stable (excepts for the parts it doesn't tell you :-= ) > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.= html > > -stacy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message