Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:02:16 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <200504181702.17076.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> References: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net>
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On Monday 18 April 2005 04:51 pm, Jim Campbell wrote: > I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD > for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 > because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, > Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. > > This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD > Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it > advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The > Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through > the following steps with no problem: > > # make buildworld > # make installworld > # mergemaster > # reboot This is how I do it: > # make buildworld > # make buildkernel > # make installkernel > # reboot > # make installworld > # mergemaster > # reboot -Mike
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