From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 12 15: 3: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jking1.lgc.com (jking1.lgc.com [134.132.228.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F43D37BAC2 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from marble (marble [134.132.228.8]) by jking1.lgc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA64550; Fri, 12 May 2000 17:02:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Message-ID: <003d01bfbc5d$c0ede5e0$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Serial # 19781010" , References: Subject: Re: 2.2.8 to 4.0 Stable Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:02:22 -0500 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Serial # 19781010 wrote: >I have a box running 2.2.8 release and I need to get it to 4.0 What is >the best way to accomplish this via cvsup?? I suspect the best way is to save all your data and do a clean reinstall. Barring that, I suspect the best way is to get a CD ROM and do a binary upgrade. You may need to upgrade to 3.x first. If you do cvsup I suspect you'll need to upgrade to 3.2, then to 3.4-STABLE, then to 4.0. Good luck. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message