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From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com>
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Subject: What's "Best" upgrade path?
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 10:37:22 -0500
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I have a FreeBSD v4.1 machine that was installed 
from the August 2000 CD's. It's not currently 
connected to the network. I'd like to upgrade it 
to the latest version with the various security 
fixes, get the sound working, and the latest 
version of KDE.

I'd like to do this while minimizing bandwidth. 
I have the v4.3 April 2000 CD's. There's nothing 
significant on the machine that I want to save 
(except the high scores from KDE's Shisen-Sho 
game).

I'm thinking I should completely reinstall the 
machine with 4.3, then upgrade from there. 

Any suggestions?

BTW, I'm getting a 
"d:\floppies\kern.flp - File is too big" error 
when trying to make the boot floppies from the 
4.3 CD's. The floppy is freshly formatted 
without system files and shows 1,457,664 bytes 
available on disk. Is this a known bug, or am 
I missing something. Creating the boot floppies 
is NOT working as documented. Maybe I've got 
a bad CD? Something else? I'm kind of leery of 
installing from those CD's until I figure out 
what's wrong with the simple procedure of 
creating boot floppies.

Thanks, Cla.

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