FreeBSD 5.0 on new laptop

[Konrad Heuer]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:36:02PM -0400, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:
> > I'm going to be installing 5.0 on my new (to me) IBM A30p thinkpad in a few
> > days (perhaps even over the weekend). I've heard that there have been major
> > improvements checked into CVS since 5.0-RELEASE, so what would the list
> > recommend I do?
> >
> > Should I just burn 5.0-RELEASE to a CD, get that working on the laptop, then
> > do a cvsup source download from cvs?
>
> there are also 5.1 beta iso's on the ftp server
> (ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.1-BETA).

I yesterday installed 5.1-BETA on my Thinkpad (R 31 ??); installation went
fine. Sometimes the systems hangs on reboot after flushing the dirty
buffers, so I have to switch power off and on.

Best regards
Konrad

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