Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:13:51 +1200 From: "Richard Shea" <rshea@thecubagroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Binary Upgrade - How ? [was : upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3] Message-ID: <20010522231306.869B21F9D3C@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
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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. ps - if this is the second version of this I'm sorry, finger trouble. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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