Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:12:27 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: Miguel Sierra <msierra@bvinet.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Upgrade: Over Internet or Just Get New CDs Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-1212211227-0b0Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <211D0157FD1FD21190DB00104B8765E906D0CB@mail>
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On Fri 11 Dec, Miguel Sierra wrote: > > > Is it hard for me to Upgrade from 2.2.7 to 3.0 or 2.2.8. No, not really. But why would you want to upgrade ? I mean, what feature do you need. ? 2.2.7 has, IIRC got almost all features the avarage user would want (e.g. long-filenames-support in FAT). 2.2.8 is a maintainance release mostly. If you have a Dual-Board, and your performance needs are so demanding that a single-Pentium-whatever can't handle them, then you could opt for 3.0. >From a user perspective, there is (IMHO) absolutely no difference. > Or do I just have to download the files and upgrade them. You don't even need all the files, just the source-diffs. Checkout the CVS-section in the handbook. There is a small package somewhere on the ftp-site, that lets you configure cvs via a console-based menu. A total no-brainer. Then, if you've updated your source, you can look at this web-site: http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html Normally, there are absolutely no problems. I only get problems, when I try experimental things (like the -j -switch to the make-process, that starts more compile-sessions at once - the process then stops at some stage. It's always the same stage, though. But if you run into problems, you may end up with a totally unsuable system, that only a reinstall could bring back to life. > I'm brand new in Unix and need to find out how things go, There is _the_ book about this : Unix System Administration (2nd ed.) 1995 by Evi Nemeth et. al. I've been informed that a new edition will surface in 99, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It took them 6 years to write the 2nd edition... ;-) You shouldn't read this book like you read a MS-Windows book ("point here and click this button to receive the following error-message"), rather like a (good) cook-book, where you get ideas and inspiration. > even tell me a Website that has this information if possible. If there was one single website, that explained "it" all, I'm sure we wouldn't need this list at all ;-) >From my experience (which is only 4 years of Unix-use and a single year as a "wanna-be"-administator) and from a "guru" I know, I can say that the one thing you need most is time. Time and patience. The more you work with the system, the more you'll understand. As a good source of information, www.dejanews.com is always a good starting-point. I must admit, that it often returns more relevant articles then the maillist-archive search @ freebsd.org, which often displays only totally irrelevant articles. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | Achtung: rainer.duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |(die alte E-Mail Adresse) verfällt zum 31.12.98 | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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