Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 01:50:21 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <350A52DD.8330A0AD@dal.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313193002.19404U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > Speaking of FAQ, it may be useful to do some preemptive customer support > and add a FAQ question for it. That and a big fat section in the -announce post. > > P.S. As has been covered in *great* detail this last week, and as is > > also available via the mailing list archives, edit /dev/wd0a to be the > > fully-slice-qualified name, like the other entries. e.g. /dev/wd0s1a. > > I think I'll have to join Paul in questioning whether this breakage is > going to make 2.2.6 a support nightmare. I don't want this to become > another ``unknown login class root''-style hailstorm. :-( I don't think it will. For one thing that login class root problem was an error, it was caused by an actual mistake. For another, it affected every person who installed, even on a new system. So far the only people who've been caught by this problem are people who aren't paying attention to the lists and have done various (and varying degrees of) stupid things to make their life more difficult. Proper announcements, maybe a README.IMPORTANT file in the distribution and you'll solve the problem for 99% of the people. There will always be clueless people who won't take the first step to help themselves, but my understanding is that this change is worth the momentary pain it will produce. In fact, I've had evil thoughts about enabling a new kernel feature and then announcing on the mailing lists how to disable it. This feature will bring your system to a grinding halt while it's booting and splash a screen that derides the person for upgrading without following the mailing list. :) *Chuckling* Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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