Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:18:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jason Artz <jasonartz@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks Message-ID: <20060924211832.GA48175@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060924211224.98572.qmail@web34309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <C898E9F4-D18D-425D-B476-AF16C372C05E@shire.net> <20060924211224.98572.qmail@web34309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:12:24PM -0700, Jason Artz wrote: > Is there a way to do a binary install instead of > downloading all the new sources and compiling them as > an upgrade? Sort of. You can do it by hand if you're careful (the install files -- base.aa, etc -- are just .tar.bz2 files cut up into chunks which you can recombine and extract with cat | tar), but you'll need to take care to avoid overwriting things like /etc that you may care about. Kris --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFFvYoWry0BWjoQKURAtpwAJ4jiT1Asg7mYEGYog1plthqK8eIEQCdHSbo mHtukwEGdLX3Pr6flwM52SI= =RQIo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--
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