From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 00:40:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77DD16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:40:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED2D43D68 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:40:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79CC60F4; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:40:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84795-06; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:40:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2515760F1; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:40:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41B4FBFB.8060201@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:40:27 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Astill References: <200412071106.50575.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200412071106.50575.bastill@adam.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:40:07 -0000 Brian Astill wrote: > 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. There is a fine line betwixt insanity and well.. KIS - Keep it simple - install 5.3, CVSup when 5.4 is out, and so on. Save yourself the "insanity" of leapfrog installing. Master CVSup - and you will not only save much time and beer drinking - well, maybe save you time, but you'll end up being an efficient user of FBSD. -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers don't eat quiche. In fact, real programmers don't know how to spell quiche. They eat twinkies and szechuan food.