From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 19 17:28:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18984 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA18913 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yFqaP-0007Id-00; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:27:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:27:02 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: jack cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, jack wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Tom wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > > > Not knocking this, but I've expressed concern over one upgrade problem > > ... > > > on a machine that was freshly installed using the same BETA, the disk > > > label editor comes up blank. If you quit out of the label editor at > > > > That method of upgrades is probably rarely tested. Most people use > > installworld upgrades (I do). Much faster and painless than sysinstall > > upgrades. > > When you've got nearly a dozen boxes to upgrade, some without the > disk space to make world, upgrade installs from one machine are > the way to go. When you a dozen boxes to upgrade installworld is THE WAY to go. (that is installword, not buildworld). I just build buildworld on one box, and do installworld on every other box. I also build all kernels on some system too. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message