From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 0:36:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D86F37B419 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g3J7adn32013; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:36:39 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: Mark Filipak , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Are you sure? Message-ID: <20020419003638.D31651@tao.thought.org> References: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net> <87hem84p9b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CBF5140.1AAB72B4@earthlink.net> <3CBF70D2.F5B33616@earthlink.net> <87y9fk18dp.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <87y9fk18dp.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>; from mcglk@artlogix.com on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:59:30PM -0700 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:59:30PM -0700, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Mark Filipak writes: > > | Okay, Ken. I'm downloading the four ISO images now. > > Okay. May I just gently point out that it's not necessary to do that? You're > gonna get a LOT of stuff with those ISO images, and not all of it is going to > stay relevant for long. Sure, we're starting you off with 4.5-RELEASE, but > we're gonna try to get you to the point where you're tracking 4.5-STABLE before > long. > Bfore I wise up and gt some sleep for a change, let me ask a fairly obvious qauestion:: why can't Mark just do a binary upgrade or installl? Mark, if you've got the 3.3 WEB tool backup up or otherwise safe, you can just blow away the older installation, install v4.5 (either src or binary) and then have fun just- learning Berkeley Unix. Get X11 up; pull over several GUI ports and build them: #make install clean and then read. There are a gzillion tutorials out there; most exceptionally well written/ I don't know what this "professional programmr" friend was smoking, but his computer was either a vic-20 or DOG/Doze. enuf. good morning, europe; good night to the rest f western washington state, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message