From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 23:50:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9CD37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BBA43EA3 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9G6ote5000540; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:50:55 -0700 Subject: Re: upgrade to 4.7 over net? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: questions@freeBSD.ORG To: Iain From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <200210161631.16703.iain@voffice.myspinach.org> Message-Id: <9E268282-E0D3-11D6-A8F8-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 23:31 US/Pacific, Iain wrote: > I was just wondering if it is possible to upgrade from 4.6.2 -> 4.7 > via the > net. Is this possible on a running system? Possible but not recommended/supported. > I have read the stuff about upgrading in the release notes but it is a > bit > vague. It says you should try /stand/sysinstall but from the version > you are > upgrading to. So does this mean that you copy sysinstall onto the > system you > will be upgrading from the CD or from the internet? The closest approved method I've identified is to download and burn the floppy install images, boot from those, and do a binary upgrade from sysinstall with the source being the ftp server. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message