From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 10:47:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2E637B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:47:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79D4810D; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:52:02 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission To: "Jason Halbert" , Subject: Re: Upgrading 4.0 to 4.2 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:47:10 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <01d401c087c6$927465b0$60582904@next> <01012609434800.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <01012609434800.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012609471001.48833@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message