Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:40:34 -0700 From: "Erin" <Kahn@deadbbs.com> To: "'Gary Kline'" <kline@tao.thought.org>, "'Charlie ROOT'" <root@hammerfell.dhs.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Congrats! Message-ID: <002601c0030b$3b7327a0$e815820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20000810133555.A34348@tao.thought.org>
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> > [I hope no one takes this message as spam.] > > > > With all the complaints and hardships people come across > when upgrading > > (particularly across the 3.x -> 4.x boundary), I'm sure it > sometimes looks > > like no one is ever satisfied, and the whole mess deserves > to be sent to > > /dev/null. > > > > I, however, would like to congratulate the FreeBSD (and, by > proxy, the > > contributing code from all the *BSDs and even Linux, in > parts) team for > > their hard work. The upgrade worked for me. Yes, it required some > > tweaking, part of which resulted from me not knowing something, or > > thinking I knew it better than the people who write UPDATING, but it > > _WORKED_. That in itself is amazing. Approximately two > hundred megabytes > > of source code compiled without a hitch, and upgraded a system in > > situ. AMAZING. > > > > The published help posted to -questions helped me move from > 3.2 to 4.0 last may... on my research and experimental platform, > tho. Not *here*. Here, I am still at 3.2. > > My question for this list is: will it make more sense to > upgrade this 3.2 system to 3.5 before I make the Great Leap? > > With 3.2 -> 3.5 I won't be holding my breath and quaking in > my boots.... > > Anybody?? I did a 2.2.8 -> 4.0-STABLE (7/28/2000) with out any problems. It almost scared me. I do have to fix some of my perl code because I moved some stuff around, but thats my problem. Erin mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http://www.deadbbs.com http://www.fortenberry.net Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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