From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 15 13:37:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firewall.symark.com (firewall.symark.westlake.iswest.net [207.178.203.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308D437BD53; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ggross@symark.com) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by firewall.symark.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA04668; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:36:39 -0800 Received: from minnow.symark.com(128.1.1.70) by firewall.symark.com via smap (V2.1/2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma004663; Wed, 15 Mar 00 13:36:25 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:36:17 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Gross X-Sender: ggross@minnow To: Brad Knowles Cc: Warner Losh , Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For me the main issue is that I like my 3.4 RELEASE box so much. I don't want to risk sacrificing it in the event that the ad devices do not work as well as the wd devices currently in use. [some people have been reporting problems having their ad0 devices detected during the install.] So I decided to install 4.0 r.c. 2 on a 16MB 486 system and that has been working fine. Next I want to build a faster box especially for 4.0 instead of blow away the 3.4 installation, which has proven to be the most reliable system I've ever had. What I really meant was that I like having a "clean" install of 4.0 rather than following all the steps to upgrade. Maybe it's just laziness. Glen Gross Unix Technical Support Specialist SYMARK SOFTWARE 5716 Corsa Avenue, Suite 200 Westlake Village, CA 91362 Main: 818-865-6100 FAX: 818-889-1894 http://www.symark.com Technical Support: unix-support@symark.com On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:50 PM -0700 2000/3/15, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Too complicated to be worth the hassle? The few simple steps in > > UPDATING have been followed by me on several systems and work... > > What might work fine for -CURRENT users may be too complex for > people used to much more polished procedures in -STABLE. > > Unfortunately, there are *way* too many people who are ready to > jump on the .0 release, and there's not likely to be too much you can > do to protect them from blowing off their foot in this fashion. > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message