Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:33:47 +0900 From: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-Current on Pentium-I with old hardware: still risky? Message-ID: <408283BB.6070803@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <20040418151411.I34064@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40827EBB.2070401@users.sourceforge.net> <20040418151411.I34064@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: > >>When I read about problems with early adoption of 5.X, I mainly >>encounter risks related to extremely large RAM, multi processors, >>or very new hardware. >> >>My simple and old Pentium-1 PC may therefore a very low risk system for >>installing 5-Current. Is that right? Or am making a big mistake here? > > > So I would say, that your hardware (given that there are more than 16MB > RAM in there) will run fine. This Pentium-1 system already runs 4-stable. For bumping it up to 5-current, would a cvsup of the sources with "tag=." be sufficient? Or is an install from scratch recommended when moving from 4-stable to 5-current? Bear in mind that these are going to be my first steps into 5-current! I realize I may have trouble with already installed ports, but there are only few so far. Rob.
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