From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 08:29:20 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 E650916A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zephon.secspace.de (zephon.secspace.de [62.75.136.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A7543D31 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@ps102.de) Received: from [192.168.17.11] (pD9E1C5F2.dip.t-dialin.net [217.225.197.242]) by zephon.secspace.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C346EB3B for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:29:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41B569F4.8050300@ps102.de> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:29:40 +0100 From: Volker Kindermann User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 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 08:29:21 -0000 Hi Brian, > 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. the setup you're describing is quite conservative but if you don't have a test machine it's completely ok. If you want to help the project, don't wait for 5.4 for the second half of the disc but install -current there and help fixing problems. There's an articel from Michael Lucas describing such a configuration: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html -volker