Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and FBSD. 
> Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating from FBSD 4.7 
> through 4.10 I gradually lost usability as first one program then 
> another, failed.
> I decided to wait for 5.3 before using FBSD again. 
> 
> In the meantime I have been running Knoppix 3.4 with complete 
> success,though it will have its own HUGE upgrade problems in due 
> course.  
> I MUCH prefer FBSD and its way of doing things, anyway.
> 
> So ... I've waited for FBSD 5.3, have purchased the Release 4-disk set 
> and have 50G diskspace available.
> 
> Maybe it would be better to split that 50G in half, install 5.3 in the 
> first 25G, leaving the second free for 5.4 release.  Later I would 
> install 5.5 release in that first partition, then 5.6 release in the 
> second, and so on.  
> 
> Question 1.  Is this plan sensible and/or practical?

If you have the disk space to spare, sure, go ahead.

////jerry

> Question 2. If the answer to (1.) is "No", what alternative would you 
> suggest?
> 
> Thanks for your (anticipated) helpful advice.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian
> sos-sa.org.au
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