From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 13:16:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DFB37BB4A for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12VL9X-000D8u-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:16:27 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05965; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:15:13 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:15:13 +0000 From: J McKitrick To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Josef Karthauser , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Message-ID: <20000315211512.A5892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200003152104.QAA97417@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003152104.QAA97417@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu>; from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:04:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:04:29PM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Well you do have a backup of your current system, right? (right?) > That's the first step in any upgrade. Then no matter what happens > you can always go back if you're not happy. *That* i have. And i can make another one pretty easily. I want to be very careful about this. Several weeks ago i decided to nuke the windows partition and go 'dangerously dedicated' on the whole drive. My backup procedure was *almost* perfect. I forgot my cvsup files and my source tree. Oh, well. Live and learn. But other than that, it was perfect, and i haven't looked back. A *big* plus was getting the zip drive and sound to work. And i hear that at least sound is *better* in 4.0. We'll see. ;-) Zip support is crucial to my backup procedure. > If you have another disk or at least another disk partition, you can > install a new version before you nuke the old one. Then switch between > them until you're fully committed. *That* i *don't* have. See above. :-) I'm gonna have to jump in with both feet. jm -- --------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick / jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "Tears from the depth of some divine despair rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes in looking on the happy autumn fields and thinking of the days that are no more" --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message