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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!ppcnet.ppc.sub.org!rumtifsl.ruessel.sub.org!strix.cluster.sub.org!ura From: ura@strix.cluster.sub.org (Ulf Andrick) Subject: Re: Patchkit folks, get FreeBSD! (was:[386bsd] ghostscript 2.5.2 epson driver) Organization: Nocturnal Unix System in Kaiserslautern, Germany References: <27prct$if2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Message-ID: <CDvBvq.61@strix.cluster.sub.org> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 17:14:00 GMT Lines: 42 In <27prct$if2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) writes: [problem with some gs printer drivers deleted, which I don't have with the deskjet driver] : Note, with the library fixes in FreeBSD, most everything compiles with : both gcc2 and gcc1, so I would advise EVERYONE to upgrade to FreeBSD who : is now running patchkit systems. There will NOT be another old-style : patchkit release, since ALL of the patchkit folks have moved onto doing : a brand-new release. : I need to do one more change to my upgrade script, but after that I'll : announce it's availablity more publically. The script allows you to : upgrade your system from ANY 386BSD 0.1 system to FreeBSD. How much disc space will an upgrade need? My /usr parition already has been brought up to 108 % by the 0.2.4 patch kit. Will the upgrade do it without etc01 installed and without adding enormous amounts of the like? How many MB will I have to move to my machine in order to upgrade? : So, all you who are running patched up versions of 386bsd, realize that : most of your problems have been addressed in FreeBSD, and if they haven't : been addressed, they will *only* be addressed by upgrading to FreeBSD. : Sorry to be a bear about this, but we do this for fun, and no-one has a : patchkit system around anymore to help with bug fixes and such. I hesitate to get a whole new OS just because, for instance, I'm enervated by that `status 0' message on the screen or whatever problem there is, of which I don't even know whether it is a bug. But of course, these small problems may sum up in the course of time and when there is nobody who wants to tell how to fix them ... Of course, an outright crash, as I just had somewhat diminishes my hesitance, but on the other hand, noone will guarantee that I won't have any crashes with another OS. -- Ulf Andrick ura@strix.cluster.sub.org