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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:47:10 -0900
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 4.0 to 4.2
Message-ID:  <01012609471001.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <01012609434800.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
References:  <01d401c087c6$927465b0$60582904@next> <01012609434800.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>

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On Friday 26 January 2001 09:43, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2001 21:04, Jason Halbert wrote:
> > I have a friend that has 4.0 and wants to upgrade.  She's only on
> > dialup so cvsup'ing would take a long time.  I can burn the ISO for
> > 4.2.. is there any way she could use this to upgrade her system
> > without doing a full clean install?
>
> I recently updated a friend's box to 4.2. I just burned a copy of /usr/src,
> copied it to his machine and did a make buildworld. Worked fine.
 
I forgot to add you also need to do a make installworld, plus a make 
buildkernel / make installkernel.

Beech


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