From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:54:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13623 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA13611 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08019; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:54:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:54:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Cooper cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO Upgrade How? + Pccard.conf query In-Reply-To: <813621B906ABD011884A00A0C90092B166E3F8@herculis.alphawest.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Stephen Cooper wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 with the PAO kernel and its all happy. > Recently however the PAO version of 2.2.5 has been released. So heres my > list of questions > > 1) Would I gain by upgrading a laptop whos sole purpose in life is > security scans and testing sendmail from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 ? Some added stability here and there. If it's working OK now, why break it? :) > 2) How do you you upgrade from one version to the next? Do you have to > overwrite using /stand/sysinstall and then merge all of the /etc and > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 config files yourself. More or less. Use the boot floppy's `upgrade' option. > 3) I tried booting off the new 2.2.5 (the 13/12 version) PAO boot > floppy, it got to the probing the PCMCIA card controller, then had an > error stating the / was full and crashed (This is odd as the 2.2.2 > version had no trouble at all). I have a Toshiba T2200CS 80486 with20Mb > of RAM This is usually caused by forgetting to specify filesystems in the disklabel editor. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major