From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 01:03:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2ECA16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:03:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BFA43D31 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:03:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfsse@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.0.28] (ool-43532b7b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.43.123]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4O0095LDM7B7@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:03:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:03:51 -0400 From: bsdfsse To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <415766F7.3070301@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) Subject: Do I upgrade from 5.x to anything ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:03:44 -0000 Hi, I have been running 4.10-Stable for about 3 weeks, and one of my computers doesn't work with it. Apparently FreeBSD 4.x doesn't like the Asus motherboard's HD controller, and I constantly get disk errors. HOWEVER, 5.x seems to work fine. For the last few weeks, I've been going through this ritual of installing 4.10-Release, then immediately upgrading to 4-Stable - using the instructions in a book I bought ("Absolute BSD"). My big machine has an Asus motherboard, 160GB, and 2 x 200GB Maxtor drives. It also has a new 400w power supply, and a Celeron chip. I basically replaced every part of the machine trying to get to 4.x to work, then gave up and am trying to run 5.x. Is there something I should be doing after I install 5.x-Release to get the latest software? On 4.x I would install "cvsup" and "cvsup-without-gui", then running "cvs -g -L 2 stable-supfile", and finally doing a make buildworld, etc, etc. I have no idea what my options are on 5.x I heard 5.x-Stable is coming out in October, so does that mean you can't really update 5.x until October? I installed the 5.3-Beta CD, but the stable-supfile looks like it will try to get the 4.x stable code. I also did not really want to run "current" since this machine is supposed to be my home server. I mostly want my ports up to date, so I can run Thunderbird, Firefox, etc (if they are available on 5.x). Maybe I should make my working 4.x box my "server", and make my nonworking machine a 5.x "desktop". My original plan was to run 4.x on all my home boxen, then load 5.x when it got to around 5.3.1 - except now my big box wont run 4.x. So I am forced to load 5.x now, or just let the machine sit for a month. Another option is to try and use the help on the mail lists to figure out why 4.x wont run on my big box. I tried so many things I don't really want to think about it anymore, lol. The Asus motherboard is a replacement for another one that died while initially trying to install 4.x I literally replaced everything inside the case: power supply, motherboard, chip, drive controller, RAM, HD's, cables, CDR's, cables. The current error is the hardware error "Signal 11". %-( Well back to my original question: Any suggestions on how to get the currently available 5.x tree modestly up-to-date? Or should I wait until it matures more? thx!