From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 7:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (bach.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4C737B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:49:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (barn.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.210]) by bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA27754 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:49:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hurf@graphics.cornell.edu) Message-ID: <39FEE9C2.1D6B7DC5@graphics.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:48:18 -0500 From: Hurf Sheldon Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: BSD Stable from 4.1 CD-ROMS? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Folks, Some questions re: FreeBSD installs. I've just installed 4.1 from the CD-Rom dated August. Is that considered the "stable"? We installed the "X with kernel sources" selection with no extras save linux and 3.2 binary compatability. During the install the disk format routine would only allow 4 partitions (9gb SCSI on adaptec 2940) - anything further was given the device entry "X" After boot and kernel rebuild (for dual cpus ), we can't mount the CDROM for additional package installs (from /stand/sysinstall) - we get the error - "bad super block" We have several FreeBSD systems, now spanning 3.2->4.1. I'm curious what schemes people are using to keep a group of systems updated as painlessly as possible. There are 3 fronts: The system software, the packages and the ports that we'd like to be able to keep synced among the systems. What has been successful? thanks, hurf -- Hurf Sheldon, Dir. Research Systems email: hurf@graphics.cornell.edu Program of Computer Graphics voice:607 255 6713 fax:607 255 0806 580 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~hurf/ Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message