From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 12:50:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A262237BEEF for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 12:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11156; Wed, 31 May 2000 14:50:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:50:14 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Eric Kozowski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4 to 4.0 In-Reply-To: <20000531105347.A6758@schooner.svjava.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The instructions that you NEED to follow are at... /usr/src/UPDATING Read them carefully and be very sure you have a solid backup. This method of upgrading the system from source across a major version can be tricky. Most people avoid it and simply do a fresh install starting at 4.0 to avoid any issue with doing the source upgrade. Once you are at 4.0RELEASE, going to STABLE or even 4.1 using source should not be all that difficult. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Eric Kozowski wrote: > > i want to bring my 3.4 system up to 4.0. is cvsup then make buildworld, etc. > the best way to do this? what problems should i expect to encounter, if any? > any other input is appreciated, too. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message