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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:26:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Philip Sydney Lavers <psl@ign.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nash@Mcs.Net
Subject:   Re: Update from 2.1.5 to 2.2.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980220162503.17705a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34EE06E2.2781E494@ign.com.au>

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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Philip Sydney Lavers wrote:

> I am experiencing difficulties with Netscape and java applets, and am
> being given considerable help from the mainainance people, but the
> correspondences and visits to the FreeBSD sites indicate to me that my
> FreeBSD 2.1.5 is probably outdated. How can I retrieve and inatall 2.2.5
> and any updated X stuff without losing the considerable amount of
> critical archive material, including mail and programmes, that I have
> already accumulated?

Run the install floppy and select `upgrade'.  Back up /etc/ first, but
otherwise it's painless.

> I should point out that I have not found any up to date CD roms on sale
> in Sydney, Australia 

You can order them from Walnut Creek directly, they ship overseas.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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