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Date:      Mon, 4 May 1998 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504152245.23827F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980504093832.1424A-100000@mybsd.net>

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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Keith Woodworth wrote:

> 
> For the purpose of learning how things work, I installed the entire 2.1.7 
> dist from cd a while back, source incl.
> 
> this is a stock 2.1.7 system. I installed it then sort of forgot about it 
> for a while as I didnt have time to really look at it again till this 
> weekend. I snagged cvs-bin-14.1.1 and installed it and config'd it to 
> get src-all and cvs-crypto.

cvsup 15.4 was released the other day.  You might want that rather than
the crusy old 14.1.

> Now as this is a stock 2.1.7 installed system ( i didnt even get ppp 
> working as I have a 2.1.7 system already working as a gateway and went 
> through that to get new src ) can I simply type make buildworld then if 
> that works make installworld? Or simple as the makefile has just make world?

See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/make-world/ for details.

> If this is the case will I end up with a 2.2.6 system? Or would it be 
> easier just to boot with a 2.2.6 floppy and do an upgrade via sysinstall?

I prefer this method -- it's generally faster and less painful.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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