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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:14:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Yifeng Xu <websoft@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Message-ID:  <14836.3973.771492.739156@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <109669924@toto.iv>

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Yifeng Xu writes:
> Yes, I have same question, if my FreeBSD machine is
> not connected to Internet, how do I upgrade my
> machine?
> there just hasn't a complete package collection which
> both includes system and application programs. unlike
> Redhat, I can download a new version package and
> install it, no matter it's system util or application.
> CTM? no, I don't like it, why every time a bug fixed
> program should be upgraded from source code? stupid, I
> am a user not a computer expert, source code is
> meanless for me.

I can't tell if you want the application packages or the OS
distribution. If you want application packages, they are in
ports/<ARCH>/packages-<version>/, where <ARCH> is either i386 or
alpha, and <version> is 3.5-stable, 4-stable, 5-current, etc.

If you want the OS, ISO images of the release distributions can be
found on the FTP mirrors in ../releases/<ARCH>/ISO-IMAGES. That's the
thing to grab for a new version of the OS.

	<mike





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