From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 9 14:41:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15776 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15771 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06224; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:41:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: urgent: bought 2.2.1 cd, is that ok? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > I bought a FreeBSD 2.2.1 cd, is that ok (I'm still able to go back)? What > are the main differences with 2.2.2 (and is there a cd of 2.2.2?) You'll be fine on 2.2.1. 2.2.2 actually has some problems in installation, and 2.2.1 is much more stable from the install end. > Are ATAPI cd-players supported? Under 2.2.2 my player worked... (I > downloaded a floppy of 2.2.2 before) Yes. > (Things I want to do are routing, "masquerading", so playing internet > server and gateway, if possible do some ip accounting, firewalling and i'd > like to run linux apps if possible... is that possible with 2.2.1?) I don't know if ipdivert made it into 2.2.1 or not. YOu may need to move up to 2.2-STABLE (past 2.2.2). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo