From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 19: 7:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D006437B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cx660429a.dr.com ([24.9.136.177]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001009020729.ZGRN24299.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@cx660429a.dr.com> for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:07:29 -0700 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001008185453.034aa3c0@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> X-Sender: nkoss@mail.pv1.ca.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:05:02 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Neal Koss Subject: Re: upgrading In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001006173557.034799d0@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <20001006150142.A15724@athena.sea.tera.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001006143945.034a5410@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005165319.034a9460@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005165319.034a9460@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005225521.0387d080@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <39DD76D4.FE1A5251@urx.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001006110116.034a60f0@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <20001006191629.G252@parish> <39DE2154.F82940D7@urx.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001006143945.034a5410@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:09 PM 10/7/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > Why not simply explain the nuts and bolts of doing a > > binary upgrade? That was the original point of this > > matter. > >I think the original poster wanted to know how to use a CD-ROM image to >upgrade from source. I've checked the books, and they only talk about >upgrading through a network. Perhaps they assume, that anyone with the >CD-ROM would use stand/sysinstall. Can you upgrade from the sources >included on a the install CD-ROM?? If so, ho would one do that?? > The original poster was ME and wwhat I was asking was for more specifics on how to do a binary upgrade from the CD-ROM. I was confused about the use of /stand/sysinstall because of the warning about not using the prior version for the upgrade. What I have since learned is that what you do is: 1. Make the 2 floppies using the files on the /floppies directory of the NEW version. 'fdimage.exe' is in the 'tools' subdirectory on the ftp site fdimage kern.flp a: fdimage mfsroot.flp a: 2. Boot using the 'kern' floppy and it will tell you when to put in the 'mfsroot' floppy 3. The 'sysinstall' (NEW version) will come up on the screen eventually!!! Choose UPGRADE and proceed.... Once I found this out, I could follow the rest of the install/upgrade sequence, but I gotta say that nowhere in the docs does it tell you that the NEW sysinstall is buried inside the floppies. That was just a guess on my part. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neal Koss, MD nkoss@dr.com Eudora Pro 5.0 http://www.healinx.com/doc/kossmd http://www.checkthegrid.com Before you go to the movies...Check The Grid! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message