Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:06:50 -0500 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: buga@auug.org.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4 Message-ID: <200412071106.50575.bastill@adam.com.au>
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I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and FBSD. Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating from FBSD 4.7 through 4.10 I gradually lost usability as first one program then another, failed. I decided to wait for 5.3 before using FBSD again. In the meantime I have been running Knoppix 3.4 with complete success,though it will have its own HUGE upgrade problems in due course. I MUCH prefer FBSD and its way of doing things, anyway. So ... I've waited for FBSD 5.3, have purchased the Release 4-disk set and have 50G diskspace available. Maybe it would be better to split that 50G in half, install 5.3 in the first 25G, leaving the second free for 5.4 release. Later I would install 5.5 release in that first partition, then 5.6 release in the second, and so on. Question 1. Is this plan sensible and/or practical? Question 2. If the answer to (1.) is "No", what alternative would you suggest? Thanks for your (anticipated) helpful advice. -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au
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