Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:38:28 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: "GDB" <g-d-b@freegates.be>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to upgrade FreeBSD 3.2 to 4.X? Message-ID: <01010214382806.19598@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c074e9$3ee57140$4c0d23d4@gdb> References: <001401c074e9$3ee57140$4c0d23d4@gdb>
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I think the best way is to upgrade by source. Everything you need is explained in the handbook. Read these entire chapters: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html you can use the tag *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE if you want to upgrade to 4.2-release which is the newest one. You may want to go with that over stable until you're used to the process. Follow the same directions as in chapter 19. There may be a few caveats upgrading from 3.2 as I've heard others have some issues with that, but I've not had them myself so other people would have to comment on that. Tim On Tuesday January 02, 2001 13:24, GDB wrote: > > I want to upgrade FreeBSD 3.2 (which I have on CD-ROM) to FreeBSD > 4.X. (which I don't have on CD-ROM). What steps do I have to take? I > read the ..TXT files in > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/ (or is > it > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.2-20010102-STA >BLE/?). But what do I have to do first? Install the latest version of > sysinstall? What packages do I have to download? Everything in the > /bin directory? And then run install.sh? And then the same for > /manpages? Is that all? See: lots and lots of questions :-). Is there > an experienced user out there who can and want to help me? > > --ReST ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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