From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 15:32:39 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 11C7537B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from its-mail1.massey.ac.nz (its-mail1.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E2B43E81 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:32:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from G.P.Defryn@massey.ac.nz) Received: from its-mm1.massey.ac.nz (its-mm1.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.45]) by its-mail1.massey.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06340; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:27:09 +1200 (NZST) Received: from its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz (Not Verified[130.123.128.28]) by its-mm1.massey.ac.nz with MailMarshal id ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:27:09 +1200 Received: by its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:27:09 +1200 Message-ID: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F3B2A@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> From: "Defryn, Guy" To: "'Roman Neuhauser'" , "Defryn, Guy" Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=27Aur=E9lien_Nephtali=27?= , "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: upgrading from CD Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:27:08 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Thanks, For some funny reason I get the command not found error when I issue the cvsup command. It is installed from the ports though :-(. Why would this be? If I upgrade from the cd will everything be done automatically? Or do I need to other things as well? Sorry about all the hassles but I am still a newbie And there is not much info available on this. > > Do you have to do anything else? I cannot find any other information > on CD upgrades. most probably because just about everybody updates using cvsup (but i might be wrong). > What is the preferred method? CVSUP or doing it from CD? no idea, but this is bound to be in the handbook. [later] hm, looks like it's not. then i'd say cvsup is the way to go. i've never done a binary upgrade, because upgrading from the source (using cvsup) is too easy: # cd /usr/src # rm -fr /usr/obj/* # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=... # make installkernel KERNCONF=... # make installworld # shutdown -r now # mergemaster ... > I assume they do the same thing(CVSUP is probably getting more recent > files???) no. you'll get the sources with cvsup. unless you talk about updating /usr/src from the newer release cd's. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 8:40AM up 14:32, 7 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message