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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 11:10:40 +1200
From:      "Richard Shea" <rshea@thecubagroup.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        dougy@brizzie.org, kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3
Message-ID:  <20010522230955.806501F9E39@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz>; from rshea@opendoor.co.nz on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:38:08PM %2B1200

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> > 
> > Is this really true ? I've got a 3.4-RELEASE machine which I've never cvsupped. 
[snip]
> > Am I right in thinking that I can cvsup up from 3.4-R to some current level ?
> 
> It's more work to upgrade between 3.x and 4.x by recompiling from
> source -- in fact, it's probably not worth the trouble (there's a way
[snip]
> the upgrade path thesedays though.  For upgrading to 4.3, you're best
> off doing a binary upgrade.
> 
Hi Kris - Can you just point me to a reference as what a binary 
upgrade involves. If I grab the CD images and just try to use them 
will they recognise that an installation already exists on the 
machine in question ? I've got a number of apps installed on the 
machine in question and ideally I would upgrade the OS without 
having to "re-install" the apps.

I've never done this before (in case it wasn't already perfectly 
obvious ;-) so I'm sorry if I'm asking the wrong questions. I've also 
taken a look at mailing list archives but can't find anything too 
explicit on the subject.

regards

richard shea.


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