From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 15 14:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B6437B66C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22703; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:22:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) From: doug@safeport.com X-Authentication-Warning: pemaquid.safeport.com: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:22:04 -0400 (EDT) To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How do I upgrade from 3.X -> 4.X? In-Reply-To: <20001015223839.C27296@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First - thank you for such a complete answer. I have been running FreeBSD for about a year coming from BSDI. Not to start a religious war, this is just my personal opinion, FreeBSD is better for me technically, and economically :) It is an impressive effort and well organized (I am a fan). I have found cvsup fairly painless and pretty cut and dried; but I have a T1 connection, some CS background, and a great mentor. On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Szilveszter Adam wrote: [cut] > > Was there a change in philosophy? > > I don't think so. If you look at the above, it only says that since this is > a snapshot (generated daily) not an official release, there is a possibility > that it might contain bugs that may have been corrected by tomorrow. > > I think the original philosophy behind this is something like this: [cut] Thanks, I think I understand. I think I still have some issues with the wording but the FAQ is not on point to my problem and I need to think about your answer and the FAQ content in relation to the question it is answering. > 4) There is -CURRENT which is a big no-no for any non-development purpose. amen - it is not for the faint of heart :) [cut] > Go for it!:-) The more documentation, the better. > I cannot do it since I have never actually tried it. This is the way docs > are born: You find it out the hard way and document for everybody else. > Unfortunately, people keep forgetting part 2 of the sentence... > (Which is to remind me that I should write up a new formatting-media > tutorial, because the present one is quite a bit outdated and I have just > done a full migration of my system to a new, bigger disk.) There is nothing I could find after pretty extensive searching. I have also read/skimmed "The Complete FreeBSD" and the printed version of the handbook without success, so assuming this is a common question I will document when I am done. _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message