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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help on getting FreeBSD on my machine Date: 10 Feb 1994 06:54:16 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2jclmo$2ks@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Feb4.151656@unccsun.uncc.edu> <2j0saq$6h6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <NAWAZ921.94Feb7172511@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <NAWAZ921.94Feb7172511@lava.cs.uidaho.edu>, Faried Nawaz <nawaz921@uidaho.edu> wrote: >In article <2j0saq$6h6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > > The only one that is installable is FreeBSD-Release. Once that > is installed, install the 1.0 -> 1.0.2 patch and you should have > a very stable system. At that point, wait about a month or so and > then you can apply the 1.0.2 -> 1.1 patch and having working shlibs, > a much better VM system, etc... > >will there be a 1.0 -> 1.1 patch? Have we ever let you down? :-) There will be a way to convert a FreeBSD 1.0 system to a 1.1 system even if it means re-installing every binary on your entire system in a ordered fashion. (Which isn't too far off considering every binary needs to be re-installed due to shlibs. That is unless you want to keep all the big static binaries areound. :-) Source upgrades of course will be less painful than binary upgrades because the system already knows how to re-install every binary safely and in the correct order. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.