On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:57:04AM +0200 or thereabouts, freeBSD wrote: > I installed 5.0 when I first tried out freeBSD this spring, and after > some months of testruns I'm still very impressed and will choose freeBSD > as our *nix clone standardized OS. > > Unfortunately everywhere I look and read the recommendation is to go > with 4.8 not 5.x, and especially would I like the nvidia drivers to > work, therefor do I need to downgrade my system. > > Is that possible? To go from 5.0 to 4.8 by using the cvsup and > buildworld procedure? Are there any pitfalls? > > > The system is mainly used for samba-filesharing and web-service provided > by Apache-Tomcat.
It's possible, but not supported. I did this once and my system threw up all over me. (/bin/sh wouldn't run, etc.) So : try it, but make a backup first. -- Josh > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"