From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 15:32:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2324C106566B for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:32:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87828FC18 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk36 with SMTP id 36so2022556yxk.13 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:32:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E1tP649En3rNi0jAGBMzjTNQX535lpXxt20frHHlycY=; b=kniyALhWf3Xvn9TybN6atllQuX5puIw5pXArUrtlXdcGVblx8gYrgSj3Cs2kOSQd1T d6vXDDgw0ba5BrO3qxfRgZI7NWSSM1TsfgMGfx8V7NOgS7NHcAJ2R/JqnZ5R270I558K tJWVuwb6osbbfaeHrxHHrT/s5EZkvvul61clU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.47.193 with SMTP id ut1mr664066icb.219.1315582356966; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.59.71 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:32:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e69f325.4b5bdf0a.6fd5.6d3eSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <4e69f325.4b5bdf0a.6fd5.6d3eSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:32:36 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared libraries version bump? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:32:38 -0000 On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Thomas Mueller < 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