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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:19:00 -0700
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-questions@chittenden.org>
To:        Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3
Message-ID:  <20010722151900.E23372@rand.tgd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010722221048.7981.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com>; from "wayneclubin@yahoo.com" on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at = 03:10:48PM
References:  <20010722221048.7981.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com>

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> How does one upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and keep all
> config files and all installed ports etc... Or is the
> only way to do this simply to install 4.3 from scratch
> and thus loose everything done with 4.2. I have looked
> in the documentation but can't seem to find a
> definitive answer to this question. Thanks in advance
> for your help.

	Check out chapter 20 in the handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

	You'll want to track -stable, not -current.  ;~)  -sc


	PS Make sure you read the part about mergemaster if you're
interested in preserving your config files.

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Sean Chittenden

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