From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 20:32:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E994214C11 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA46854; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:30:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:30:40 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Jackson Donadel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current In-Reply-To: <001301bf5b09$8ce1ba20$8b31f8c8@void.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jackson Donadel wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Scheidt > To: Gustavo V G C Rios > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: current > > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I would like to install FreeBSD current into a 2nd slice, but i have no > > > ideia on how to perform such an action! > > > > Unless you have a good reason to run -CURRENT, you oughtn't. If you don't > > know how to install it, you probably don't have a good reason. > > > > > Why not install? > Because -CURRENT isn't really for use by most people. There is no guarantee that it is going to work on any given day. There are all sorts of things that get broken on a regular basis. There is no support for it. If you can't figure out how to install it (and there is enough in the handbook to go on) you have no business running it. Regards, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message