Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:04:37 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to 2.1.5 or 2.2-SNAP? Message-ID: <199607161034.UAA07459@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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: The options seem to be: : a) using sup/make world for either 2.1.5 or 2.2-SNAP; : b) getting the boot.flp for one of these and "upgrading" : using ftp (faster, but I'm not sure what an "upgrade" does); : c) buying the cdrom for either of these and upgrading. : Is backing up /etc the only essential protection one needs? Depends.... Decide how bad it would be if you lost the lot, and think of a friend with a nice tape drive, or other backup medium :) : Is there any reason for 2.1.5 instead of the 2.2 June 12 SNAP? : For example, will the various packages/ports from 2.1 continue : to work? 2.1.5-RELEASE is the end of the -stable tree (for 2.1) as far as i can gather. 2.2-current is the development tree. Its under constant development. I'd like to run -current here, but sometimes I have work to do, and the system _must_ work, so its -stable for me... :) -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds The internet is full, please try again in half an hour...
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