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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:53:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrade w Release or Toolkit CDs?
Message-ID:  <20010320025314.B17952@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010320105958.4FE9.GUS@algonet.se>; from gus@algonet.se on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:19:32AM %2B0100
References:  <20010320105958.4FE9.GUS@algonet.se>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:19:32AM +0100, Gustaf Tham wrote:
> Hello.  New to FreeBSD, some experience from Linux and
> stone-age UNIX.
>=20
> I'm using a single-CD 4.2 release on a PII notebook with lots of memory,
> and connect  to the internet over the phone line -- expensive!

Don't rule out upgrading via source using cvsup to update your sources
- it is quite bandwidth-efficient, and works very well over a modem
link.  If you track -stable regularly (say, every few weeks), cvsup
should only take 10 minutes or less to update your sources.

Kris

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