Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:36:08 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Ahmed Abdullahi <ahmed@priorart.com> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading Message-ID: <3C07DFA8.8050708@owt.com> References: <GGEEKFPCOOONBDPCMDOFOENGCCAA.ahmed@priorart.com>
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Ahmed Abdullahi wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my system. I would like to upgrade to the > latest version, do I have to reinstall? No, the real question is whether a binary upgrade or using cvsup to do the upgrade is faster. I have one system that will do a buildworld in 30+/- minutes and I can't download an iso that fast. You also shouldn't use the version of cvsup that came with 4.0. It has a bug that showed up on 9 Sep 2001. See http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ for a better version. Because of some makefile problems, you can't upgrade directly to version 4.4-release, which is the current release version. The makefile problems are fixed in 4.4-stable (RELENG_4). If cvsup is a new word for you, a binary upgrade can be much easier. I can't provide any insight there because I haven't done one of those since I upgraded a system from 2.2.8 to 3.1 and a lot has changed since then. Kent > > Thanks, > --Ahmed > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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