Re: guide to downgrading from 5.0 to 4.4-STABLE

2001-11-04 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:35:40AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: Aye; feel free to holler if you find your machine wedged. It can be Very Helpful to have another fallback machine for various reasons Hi Well, after a couple of false starts, managed to downgrade successfully and so far,

guide to downgrading from 5.0 to 4.4-STABLE

2001-11-02 Thread John
Hello List Is there a guide or a how-to showing how to downgrade from a 5.0-CURRENT snapshot to 4.4-STABLE without having to blat the system and start again? The reason 5.0 is on there is because only 5 had support for the promise udma 100 tx2 card, but now that 4.4 has it, i would like to

Re: guide to downgrading from 5.0 to 4.4-STABLE

2001-11-02 Thread Michael Lucas
Having done this several times before, I highly recommend downgrading via binary package. Back up your system first! Get your 4.4 CD, throw it in the drive, and see what happens. As a rule this is not guaranteed to work, but if it doesn't then a downgrade from source certainly won't. I