Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:03:20 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Eric Hake <eric@clean.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd 2.2.7 Message-ID: <19980722100320.64388@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19980722172903.50769@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:29:03PM %2B1000 References: <3.0.5.32.19980721211039.0079ab20@pop.netaddress.com> <3.0.5.32.19980721233344.007afe10@clean.net> <19980722172903.50769@welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:29:03PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > [I'm shooting this over to freebsd-questions because that's where we > ask (even newbie) questions.] > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 11:33:44PM -0700, Eric Hake wrote: > > Newbie question --> If I have a 2.2.6 machine running just fine, and I > > want to upgrade to 2.2.7, how do you do that without buying the 2.2.7 CDs > > and reinstalling? > > > > Can you somehow download it, and install it, or is there a lot more too it > > than that? > > I guess you can read up on the gotchas to do with upgrading, download > the new floppy and do an FTP installation, selecting the upgrade > option, but I couldn't find this in the Handbook or FAQ. Is it my > searching skills (again!) or is it a gap that needs filling? Section 18 of the Handbook covers how to stay -current or -stable with FreeBSD, including how to use CVSup to update your copy of the source code, and how to use 'make world' to rebuild your system. A "Upgrading from one one release to the next" section (a new 18.3 probably, with everything below that bumped down by one) would probably be a useful thing for someone to write. Anyone with experience doing that care to put fingers to keyboard? N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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