Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:01:36 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391DD0C0.8CE1D787@3-cities.com> References: <088101bfbd21$f66a5f40$0200000a@danco>
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Dan O'Connor wrote: > > > Your problems were caused solely because you ignored the advice of many > >capable and knowledgeable people to not attempt a source upgrade. There > >are a lot of people for whom the best path is to back up their data, > >wipe the disk and install the new system. There is nothing wrong with > >that. > > As a side note, I want to say that I *like* the 3.4 -> 4.0 source upgrade > procedure... I got bit by that but the UPGRADING message has change since then. I ended up doing a clean install. My system needed the rebuild. Lightning struck twice because my back up dat tape failed about 1/3 of the way into the backup. I had copies of almost everything. I knew there were a few fixes to be had at 4.0 stable and quickly upgraded from 4.0-R to 4.0-S. I could have made the source upgrade work now. Someone else got to the same exact point I did and with a few commets he was able to make it work. I like 4.0. Doing almost anything is easier. I have since converted two of my Windows 2000 machines to include FreeBSD on the boot. Both of them are running FreeBSD right now. NFS_sharing is installed on all of my machines including my W2K Server. I can't bring myself to installing Samba. I can make my W2K machines access and share to Unix and can't imagine making my Unix machines act like a windows machine for sharing. I tried adding Linux but it won't work my way. It would have been ok if I only had one partition but I have a primary and an extended on every drive that was available. The slice concept of FreeBSD was vastly superior at this point. I could slice a big chunk of disk and then partition that like I wanted. That wasn't available on Linux. I still want Linux on a system for a side by side install but the system will have to be configured for that purpose from scratch. The only problem I have on one system is a AHA-1520 scsi adapter. It has my zip drive on it. I don't miss it. The kernel probes forever at boot. Forever is that length of time I allow before I reboot to the /kernel.old :). I know the I/O port, IRQ, but I haven't figured out how to supply the memory address. It hasn't been too important because I can always boot Win98 to use the scanner on that system. Kent > > My computer is one of the earlier Pentiums with the broken-IDE controller > problem that the new ATA driver chokes on. With the new procedure of make > buildworld / mknod make install / modules make install / kernel build & > install, I was able to find this problem without destroying my ability to > continue operating with a 3.4-STABLE kernel (since the world hadn't actually > been installed yet...). All I had to do was change /etc/fstab entries back > to 'wd*' instead of 'ad*'. > > I quickly mail-ordered a Promise Ultra33 controller card, installed it when > it got here, and now my system is happily at 4.0-STABLE. > > Even with this (minor) glitch, this upgrade was far less painless than the > 2.2.8 -> 3.0 one. If I'd had newer hardware, this upgrade would have been no > more difficult than a typical 'make world'. > > --Dan > > -- > Dan O'Connor > On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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