From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 9 03:39:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA25206 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 03:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA25190 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 03:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@korin.warman.org.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09959; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:38:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:38:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: Nate Williams , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: isa.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 8 Dec 1997, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Nate Williams writes: > > > > > > You'd be much better off upgrading to 2.2.5R, as I suspect his patches > > > > > > apply to that pretty cleanly. > > > > > I have a list of good reasons for not upgrading to 2.2.2R, and a > > > > > longer one for not upgrading to 2.2.5R. > > > > And those would be? > > > Amongst other items, lack of a suitable backup device > > No need to backup. It's a piece of cake to upgrade w/out doing a > > "Just download the sources" is easier said than done with a v34 modem. I have exactly such a modem, plus very noisy telephone line. What I did, though, was to install the sources from 2.2.1 CD-ROM and then run cvsup... It took me about an hour to catch up with -current, and it should take much less to catch up with -stable. So, I know this can be done quite easily :-) Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------