Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:24:31 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I install 4.4R? Message-ID: <3BA7C99F.FC3D010D@urx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109181822060.12309-100000@CI590846-B.lxintn1.ky.home.com>
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Jim Freeze wrote: > > > There were a lot of fixes between 4.3-r and 4.4-r. There were several > > large security holes that you are now running. > > Yes. I have seen those security releases. > > > > > It all depends on what you are using. I have dual 866 coppermines and a > > DSL line. The cvsup upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4-stable required about an > > hour from cvsup to reboot to new version. > > Sorry for the dumb question, but doing a cvsup upgrade is > something I have never done before. Is this like make world? > I recently got a cable modem and have been keeping up on > ports, but not the system. Can you point me to a step-by-step > instruction list to do this upgrade? There is almost a step by step in the Handbook. I don't remember what chapter and Internet throughput is slow right now. I have 5 FreeBSD systems and I do a local mirror so they all have identical code. The cvsup operation is pretty simple. You need to install the cvsup-16.1d snapshot. Then, you grab the sample cvsup files and change the host to one close to you. For FreeBSD 4-stable, I use tag=RELENG_4. There are sample supfiles for docs, ports, and src. You can combine them but I don't because docs and ports use a "tag=.". I like to separate things like that. You basically cvsup, buildworld, build[install]kernel, reboot to single user mode and do an installworld. Then, you run mergemaster to upgrade the control files that have changed. Where you are starting out clean, you can mess up and recover. My dual 866's do a buildworld in 29-30 minutes. The only way I could improve that is to go to Ultra-160 scsi. Kent > > Thanks > > Jim -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.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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