Is my hard ware sufficient?

[arthur]

Got it. Looks I will go with the floppy boot (don't want burn too many CD's,
and burning CDRW is slower than boot from floppy).

Thank you for the quick response.

Arthur
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc at msu.edu>
To: "arthur" <mail2arthur at gmail.com>
Cc: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc at msu.edu>; "Lone Wolf" <hubaghdadi at yahoo.ca>;
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?


> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:14:52AM -0500, arthur wrote:
>
> > > I normally just use the cd to load the installation programs -
> > sysinstall -
> > > and download everything over the net during installation.
> >
> > I have v6.2 cd but I am going to try 7.0, but I don't mind if the
KDE/app is
> > latest.
> >
> > So do you think I can:
> >
> > 1. boot with 6.2CD, run sysinstall, then install v7.0 over the network
> >
> > 2. install kde or other app to v7.0 installation from a 6.2 CD
>
> No.   You really want to download the 7.0 ISO and burn it
> and install the applications intended for that level.
> You could make it work, but you don't want to.
>
> ////jerry
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Arthur
> >