Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:38:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: isa.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971209123459.8345A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <xzpd8j74jpr.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On 8 Dec 1997, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
> Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> writes:
> > > > > > You'd be much better off upgrading to 2.2.5R, as I suspect his patches
> > > > > > apply to that pretty cleanly.
> > > > > I have a list of good reasons for not upgrading to 2.2.2R, and a
> > > > > longer one for not upgrading to 2.2.5R.
> > > > And those would be?
> > > Amongst other items, lack of a suitable backup device
> > No need to backup. It's a piece of cake to upgrade w/out doing a
>
> "Just download the sources" is easier said than done with a v34 modem.
I have exactly such a modem, plus very noisy telephone line. What I did,
though, was to install the sources from 2.2.1 CD-ROM and then run cvsup...
It took me about an hour to catch up with -current, and it should take
much less to catch up with -stable.
So, I know this can be done quite easily :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
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