From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 8 12:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8F237B419 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 16CntR-0003cN-00; Sun, 09 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +1300 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: Sam Drinkard Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Advice Please In-Reply-To: <3C1273A2.E269C6BB@vortex.wa4phy.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I am now grabbing the -stable tree, and wish to attempt to > upgrade from 4.3-R to Stable. > Reading all the docs/readme's etc now, but would > like to know if there are any "gottcha's" before I proceed. Depends on what you're after, but -STABLE might not be what you want. The name is somewhat misleading. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html You might be better off upgrading to 4.4-RELEASE and applying bugfixes/updates instead. -- Juha Take off every sig! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message