From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 21:18:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net (mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net [208.247.171.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3CA37BB40 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:18:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from [24.216.177.146] (HELO default.enterit.com) by mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with ESMTP id 8805419; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:18:08 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000316002208.00d29390@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: jconner@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:22:30 -0500 To: "Mitch Vincent" , "J McKitrick" From: Jim Conner Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Cc: "Brandon Fosdick" , In-Reply-To: <02bb01bf8ed1$4ff49000$40ee2fd8@venux.net> References: <004301bf8e42$3a0735c0$4100000a@venux.net> <20000315123937.B33126@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001f01bf8e7d$b678f5e0$40ee2fd8@venux.net> <20000315141802.B33618@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Heh...we used to do crazy stuff like this at Disney all the time :) Jim At 05:53 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Mitch Vincent wrote: >Well, it took a nice long time to do it on my T1. I thnk around an hour and >a half to cvsup from 3.4 to 4.0.. So on a 56k modem I would say.... Ouch! > >I'm not sure if it's possible to save the old source tree, I guess you >could.. > >We did an interesting (but risky) thing when we messed up the vinum >partitions. We tar'd up the entire OS on to a tape, >re-partitioned/formatted/installed from the 3.4 CD and then untar'd the 4.0 >stuff from the tape, it was such a hack but hey, after being up for 36 hours >you'll try crazy stuff like that... Get this --- it worked! > >Good luck! > >- Mitch > >----- Original Message ----- >From: J McKitrick >To: Mitch Vincent >Cc: Brandon Fosdick ; >Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:18 AM >Subject: Re: 4.0 questions > > > > About how long is the cvsup with a 56K connection? > > > > Also, is is possible to save the old source tree and then perform a > > roll-back if i have problems? > > > > jm > > -- > > --------------------------------------------- > > Jonathon McKitrick / jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org \ > > "I prefer the term Artificial Person myself."/ > > --------------------------------------------- > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's errors, in contrast: Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" ------------------------------- Jim Conner NOTJames jconner@enterit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message