From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 01:23:49 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 3631616A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:23:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8391543D5A for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:23:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id iB71NKg29848; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:23:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200412070123.iB71NKg29848@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bastill@adam.com.au (Brian Astill) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:23:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200412071106.50575.bastill@adam.com.au> from "Brian Astill" at Dec 07, 2004 11:06:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: buga@auug.org.au 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 01:23:49 -0000 > > 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? If you have the disk space to spare, sure, go ahead. ////jerry > 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 > _______________________________________________