From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 3: 3:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E57E037B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16362 invoked by uid 100); 23 Oct 2000 10:03:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14836.3327.476411.33148@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:03:43 -0500 (CDT) To: "Rino Mardo" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which files needed to upgrade to STABLE? In-Reply-To: <29855589@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rino Mardo writes: > Hi. I have run FreeBSD 4.1-Release and have upgraded it to Stable > successfully from office as I have a leased line there. At home, I only > have a 56K dial-up modem, have a 4.1-Release box and cannot afford the > amount of time required to upgrade my home system to Stable. What I'm > thinking is while at the office, I could download the necessary files, copy > to Zip disk, do the upgrade at home using the Zip disk as source. I already > checked the Handbook, FAQ, and searched the archive mailing list but really > couldn't find the answer. > > The problem - which files should I download in order for me to upgrade my > 4.1-Release to 4.1.1-Stable? Assuming you did the ugprade to -stable in the office the recommended way (downloading src and then doing the appropriate make's), then all you need to do is move /usr/src from your running -stable system to the one you have at home, and do the same set of makes.