From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 6:18:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 196F337B4CF for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 06:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10981 invoked by uid 0); 23 Oct 2000 13:16:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ghostinyou) (195.229.53.44) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 23 Oct 2000 13:16:08 -0000 Message-ID: <007a01c03cf3$68085570$0204010a@ghostinyou> From: "Rino Mardo" To: References: <14836.3327.476411.33148@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Which files needed to upgrade to STABLE? Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:15:49 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmm, yes i could do that. thanks. but for arguments sake, it would the files in the stable directory in ftp.freebsd.org ? i mean the whole shebang? ----------------------------------------------- who watches the watchmen? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" To: "Rino Mardo" Cc: Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Which files needed to upgrade to STABLE? > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message