Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:32:36 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared libraries version bump? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tonpmdLeVEATanDy4HgJm=KWA4uPZvYtVUBywPjvY3og@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e69f325.4b5bdf0a.6fd5.6d3eSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <4e69f325.4b5bdf0a.6fd5.6d3eSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Thomas Mueller <<mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Since I have plenty of disk space on the new computer, I was planning to = keep the BETA1 partition and install BETA2 to a separate partition. > > FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 is the first hard drive OS on the new computer, not cou= nting the nonworking NetBSD installation; I am not upgrading from 8.x. > > Since I have nothing worth saving on my nonworking installation of NetBSD= -current, I can delete those partitions and make a FreeBSD partition for BE= TA2. > > I can keep the already existing /home partition. > > That way, I already have the ports tree, can run 'portsnap fetch update',= won't have to redownload the distfiles on those ports that haven't been up= dated since then. =A0I will have no immediate need for portupgrade or portm= aster but will in the near future. > > I will have the BETA1 to fall back on in the interim before BETA2 install= ation becomes more self-sufficient, for web browsing including online finan= cial affairs. Thanks, but I've already pulled t trigger and am running 9.0-Beta2 (current). Works fine. I will need to re-build some ports. Probably will re-install all of them. I did hit a bug in the upgrade that I will report in a new thread, but it went pretty well. Thanks to all of the suggestions. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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