From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 10:46:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19649 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19644 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA03001; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:47:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:47:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Updating advice Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings... I need some advice I am currently running 2.0.5 installed vie floppies from the Walnut Creek CD. Hardware is a 486DX2-66, 500MB Maxtor IDE, 16MB RAM, Intel EtherExpress and an internet connection. The initial installation was a "look-see" ... I liked what I saw. The original installation was via floppy images because I had no CD-ROM on the target machine. I've since been adding bits and pieces with the ports collection and now have the 2.1 CD. I have been unable to make a spare CD-ROM drive and controller work. The controller, a Future Domain 840 is recognized by the sea0 driver, but the drive (an NEC CDR-36) is not. The driver returns "arbitration timeout" when probing for devices. So unless somebody can help me fix that one, I still can't directly access the CD. I keep finding that the ports files are behind the available distfiles, and often the specified source isn't even available any more. I also would like to update the whole release to -stable or -current but at a loss to determine a rational way to do that without losing what work I've done. With only 500MB to work with (less... I need to reset as much as I can for users) I'm not sure it's feasable to maintain the whole source tree. I have no desire for any X-windows applications - the system is intended for use by ANSI-only users. As mentioned, I have a live internet connection. What is my best path for upgrading? Thanks in advance. -Dave Babler