From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 12:19:39 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 4B86237C27B; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:16:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ggross@symark.com) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by firewall.symark.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA27222; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:16:57 -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 xma027214; Thu, 16 Mar 00 12:16:45 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Gross X-Sender: ggross@minnow To: Kris Kennaway 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 That is, in fact, what I did. I chose to leave my 3.4 system intact since it runs so well [and the kernel has been recompiled 26 times.] 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 Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Glen Gross wrote: > > > I think that's a good idea... upgrading from 3.x to 4.0 is too complicated > > to be worth the hassle. The UPDATING document really doesn't make this > > Install a binary snapshot and be done with it. The UPDATING document is > only the hoops you need to jump through to do a source recompile to get > from 3 to 4. > > Kris > > ---- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message