Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:19:12 +1000 From: David Rawling <djr@pdconsec.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2? Message-ID: <4C28A150.80900@pdconsec.net> In-Reply-To: <4C287B5A.4090309@antonioshome.net> References: <4C287B5A.4090309@antonioshome.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 28/06/2010 8:37 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > I'm brand new to FreeBSD. I've got 8.0-RELEASE up and running in my > main workstation and I'm quite happy with it. Great job & > congratulations. > > I'm eager to try out 8.1, and I was thinking of trying it out on my > laptop for my daily work (I'm currently running OpenSolaris 2009.06). > > My question is: if I install 8.1 RC2 would it be very difficult to > upgrade it to 8.1-RELEASE afterwards? Would you recommend installing > 8.1-RC2 right now or would you wait until 8.1-RELEASE is out within a > few days? > > Thanks in advance, > Antonio Hmm. Well apart from the fact that I can't find an 8.1-RC2 release (8.1-RC1 is the most recent I can locate) - I'd probably wait a bit - especially if you're a newcomer like me. While upgrading should be easy in most cases (freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-RELEASE ; freebsd-update install) ... I am having trouble with my 8.1-RC1 x64 VM - fetching files is failing with size mismatches. To me it appears that either my firewall/proxy, or the web server/fetch client cannot agree on the transmission of compressed files. I get size mismatches because the file gets decompressed somewhere along the way. I suspect the proxy but I haven't been able to prove it yet. Still, building a test/practice machine on 8.1-RC1 is certainly a good plan. If nothing else you can validate your port set :) Dave. -- David Rawling Principal Consultant PD Consulting And Security 20 Goodin Road Baulkham Hills, NSW 2153 Australia Mob: +61 412 135 513 Email: djr@pdconsec.net Please note that whilst we take all care, neither PD Consulting and Security nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan for viruses. The contents are intended only for use by the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material and any use by other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4C28A150.80900>