From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 19:35:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zipcon.net (zipcon.net [209.221.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8B9F37B41A for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:35:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7914 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 03:36:13 -0000 Received: from technology.zipcon.net (HELO there) (209.221.137.24) by zipcon.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 03:36:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Herman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:34:31 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200203050248.g252m2S56492@sheol.localdomain> <20020305030843.6B861BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020305030843.6B861BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020305033539.B8B9F37B41A@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 04 March 2002 07:08 pm, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Monday 04 March 2002 09:48 pm, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > In article <20020305022609.8E7EA37B400_hub.freebsd.org@ns.sol.net>, > > > > ob1@yifan.net writes: > > > I bought your system and I am pretty happy. > > > > > > I'll start w/ my question first then talk about my transition / install > > > experience (experience is probably a m$ trademark by now) > > > > > > Having succesfully installed 4.4 from the powerpack I'm curious whether > > > I should just get ahold of 4.5 and re-install before I get to far. I am > > > really fond of kde2 and seem to remember reading that this is not in > > > the 4.5 dist. is this true or am I just misinformed? -------------snip---------------- > 4.5 omitted some of the "non-essential" KDE2 packages by accident. > > (It bumped them from disk1 on purpose but accidentally failed to include > them on disk 3.) > > The packges can be installed over the network and they should build from > ports. > > This is hypothetical, though -- given both a number of people reporting > crashes on 4.5-RELEASE (being actively discussed here) and the KDE2 > problems I've decided to leave my system in its current state. Owing to > various hardware and non-FreeBSD issues I've re-installed my O/S three > times in the past few months anyway and would just as soon get back to the > important stuff like reading spam and downloading porn anyway :-) > HA!!!! I'm Dying! Thanks for your reply, I'll probably stick to 4.4 for awhile dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message