From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 4:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478ED37B41A for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 04:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g43Bq8U07804; Fri, 3 May 2002 07:52:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD27B22.8050601@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:57:22 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Pelletier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd 4.5 failures References: <003801c1f25f$4a45ae20$32040101@hume> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Pelletier wrote: > just a question for the masses.. > why have so many failed 4.5R installations/upgrades occured? i did a clean > install(via ftp) on a P133, ancient Aopen system, had to use a promise UDMA > 66 addon card for my harddrive and only have 24 MB ram on my system so you'd > think that I of all people would have had major problems. But, my system has > been up and running for about a month solid until today (had to reboot post > power outtage). Anyways, just wondering, > --charlie pelletier > --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) How many people send emails to the list saying "I didn't have any problems" compared to the people who have problems asking for help? I doubt if the number of people having problems with 4.5 is any higher than it was at any point in the past, it's just that this list is for helping people, so most of the people that post are having trouble. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message