Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:38:56 +0000 From: "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie: How do I upgrade? Message-ID: <E108VY4-0007Yb-00@violet.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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I have a CD-ROM distribution of FreeBSD 2.2.6 and I want to upgrade to the latest stable version. However, I can't find any 'dummy' instructions that tell me how to do this. There are various references to installing the source and (horror of horrors) compiling your own kernel (something which I probably don't have enough disk space for even if I did have a clue), but I can't find anything that says "to upgrade to the latest binaries, type this". Am I supposed to re-install the whole thing? Would installing as though for the first time destroy my existing data and/or configuration? Or am I supposed to just download something (if so, from precisely what URL?) and copy it into some directory? If the latter, do I need to do something to persuade /stand/sysinstall to read the latest package tree rather than 2.2.6? And can I keep in sync with a cron job? I'm a C++ programmer so can understand technical stuff, but I have very little Unix admin experience. Thanks! Regards -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://ban.joh.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22/ "All things by immortal power Near or far Hiddenly, to each other linked are That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star" - Francis Thompson (1859-1907) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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