Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:23:20 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... Message-ID: <20050114122320.A10349@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <41E7FF18.1000900@gmx.net>; from krylon@gmx.net on Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM %2B0100 References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <200501131608.53735.algould@datawok.com> <41E7FF18.1000900@gmx.net>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello, > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > >3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather than > >5.2.1. > > > > > > Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which > basically worked okay. > Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the other hand... Yes, I would say that the source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3-STABLE was fine, it was the xorg/XFree86 and kde issues that made me insane. It's possible that I should have just done a pkg_delete -a and started over with the packages from that point, but I also need to learn to use pkg_upgrade. I would not hesitate to do the source upgrade again for a system which is NOT running X. I have now reinstalled 5.3, just to get around the Xorg->XFree86 issue, and I have kde installed, and I have room to spare. So, I'm much farther than I was when I ran out of room, and I still have room. This is a good thing! > Kind regards, > Benjamin -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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