From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 9 21:52:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA29322 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 21:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p3-6.intele.net [206.29.206.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29282 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 21:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA01281; Thu, 9 May 1996 22:53:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 22:53:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199605100453.WAA01281@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Khetan Gajjar CC: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Going stable In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar writes: > I have been happy with 2.1 release for quite a while now. I want to see > where we are heading, and want to run stable. I have got the snapshot > cd-rom and want to install off there (as a dial-up user, I don't feel > like getting the tree or whatever it's called). Hi Khetan. I upgraded to 2.1-stable about 3 weeks ago, in order to stabilize my shiny new Adaptec 2842 SCSI adapter. Since then, I've supped -stable each friday night. The first sup took quite a while, nearly 6 hours, but since then, each successive weekly sup has only taken 10 - 15 minutes. I've not had any problems with the supped source files since I figured out what to do with the first one. I've provided another FreeBSDer (hi Annelise) through this recently, and she was meticulous enough to take notes of her experience and e-mail them to me. If you'd like, I'll forward them on to you. The idea is that I'll develope them and my notes into more detailed instructions about "how to upgrade to -stable the very first time." > I know this is described in the ctm section of the handbook, but for a > newbie user, how do I go from release to stable using this cd-rom ? Reply to this message if you'd like the notes I've gathered. They're certainly not ready to publish yet, but you're welcome to what I've got. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett