On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Thomas Mueller <<mueller6727_at_bellsouth.net> wrote: > Since I have plenty of disk space on the new computer, I was planning to keep the BETA1 partition and install BETA2 to a separate partition. > > FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 is the first hard drive OS on the new computer, not counting the nonworking NetBSD installation; I am not upgrading from 8.x. > > Since I have nothing worth saving on my nonworking installation of NetBSD-current, I can delete those partitions and make a FreeBSD partition for BETA2. > > I can keep the already existing /home partition. > > That way, I already have the ports tree, can run 'portsnap fetch update', won't have to redownload the distfiles on those ports that haven't been updated since then. I will have no immediate need for portupgrade or portmaster but will in the near future. > > I will have the BETA1 to fall back on in the interim before BETA2 installation becomes more self-sufficient, for web browsing including online financial affairs. Thanks, but I've already pulled t trigger and am running 9.0-Beta2 (current). Works fine. I will need to re-build some ports. Probably will re-install all of them. I did hit a bug in the upgrade that I will report in a new thread, but it went pretty well. Thanks to all of the suggestions. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.comReceived on Fri Sep 09 2011 - 13:32:38 UTC
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