From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 10:32: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tantalum.btinternet.com (tantalum.btinternet.com [194.73.73.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4571437BCBF for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.98.124] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12Vew6-0005V4-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:23:55 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01369; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:31:38 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:31:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Jim Conner Cc: Mitch Vincent , J McKitrick , Brandon Fosdick , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Message-ID: <20000316183138.E235@parish> 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> <02bb01bf8ed1$4ff49000$40ee2fd8@venux.net> <4.3.2.20000316002208.00d29390@mail.enterit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000316002208.00d29390@mail.enterit.com>; from jconner@enterit.com on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:22:30AM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:22:30AM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > Heh...we used to do crazy stuff like this at Disney all the time :) > Surely Disney uses Windows, a Mickey Mouse OS ;-) > 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 -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message