Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

[Volker Kindermann]

Hi Brian,


> 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.  

the setup you're describing is quite conservative but if you don't have 
a test machine it's completely ok.

If you want to help the project, don't wait for 5.4 for the second half 
of the disc but install -current there and help fixing problems.

There's an articel from Michael Lucas describing such a configuration:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/05/09/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

  -volker