From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 23:30:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3782437B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB9D43F85 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 23:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.8p1/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h4G6TwJc089368; Fri, 16 May 2003 08:29:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)h4G6TsWV089365; Fri, 16 May 2003 08:29:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:29:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Toni Schmidbauer In-Reply-To: <20030515214618.GI47458@devil.stderror.at> Message-ID: <20030516082635.V15079-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on new laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:30:01 -0000 On Thu, 15 May 2003, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:36:02PM -0400, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > > I'm going to be installing 5.0 on my new (to me) IBM A30p thinkpad in a few > > days (perhaps even over the weekend). I've heard that there have been major > > improvements checked into CVS since 5.0-RELEASE, so what would the list > > recommend I do? > > > > Should I just burn 5.0-RELEASE to a CD, get that working on the laptop, then > > do a cvsup source download from cvs? > > there are also 5.1 beta iso's on the ftp server > (ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.1-BETA). I yesterday installed 5.1-BETA on my Thinkpad (R 31 ??); installation went fine. Sometimes the systems hangs on reboot after flushing the dirty buffers, so I have to switch power off and on. Best regards Konrad Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany