From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 24 21:18:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1E5A416A407 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DF243D49 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:18:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5951A3C1F; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 092AA51221; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:18:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jason Artz Message-ID: <20060924211832.GA48175@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060924211224.98572.qmail@web34309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060924211224.98572.qmail@web34309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:18:34 -0000 --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--