From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 23:45:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4229237B430 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA36389; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:37:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Mike Kanaly Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help on upgrade from 4.4 stable to 4.5 stable In-Reply-To: <000101c1aaf1$fb22d9d0$6401a8c0@racerx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Mike Kanaly wrote: > Ok, as I stated in my previous mail, I was attempting to do a pkg add of > the cvsupit.tgz from the ftp sites, and I could NEVER connect. I > couldn't connect to any of them! I want to upgrade 4.4 stable to 4.5 > stable, but keep getting a file unavail, unable to fetch error. > > What's another way for me to upgrade from 4.4 stable to 4.5 stable? I've > looked on the web for a really easy, basic walk through where it holds > my hand kinda thing, and have found nothing. Some articles cover this, > but they don't go into the depth that I (a newbie) need. > > Thanks! > -Mike cvsupit is just one way to get cvsup. Do you have cvsup on your system? Is it a post-Sept 9, 2001 file? If not try pkg_add -r cvsup Then cd to /usr/share/examples/cvsup and read the stable-supfile and do what it says--get sources for RELENG_4, cd /usr/src, read UPDATING, do make buildworld and all subsequent commands. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message