From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 14:25:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B1A37B40C for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8F6C06AD74; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:55:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:55:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kris Kennaway Cc: BSD Freak , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 - CURRENT Message-ID: <20010918065533.B736@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <441f8543fad4.43fad4441f85@mbox.com.au> <20010916203751.A26142@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010916203751.A26142@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:37:51PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 16 September 2001 at 20:37:51 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:08:01PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Does I have all the FreeBSD-RELEASE CD's ISO's etc... What is the best >> way to get a machine running FreeBSD 5.0 - CURRENT. >> >> As far as I have seen there are no ISO available for download, only >> the source. Correct. This is a feature, not a bug. How much data would you need to transfer to rebuild your system daily if you imported it as an ISO? >> Is there a way to upgrade a 4.3 machine to 5.0 - CURRENT or do I have >> to compile the binaries and run a 5.0 installation. >> >> Does this have anything to do with make world? Yes. That's the answer. >> It would be great if someone could steer me into the right direction... > > Basically, if you can't figure out how to upgrade to -current on your > own, you shouldn't be running it. FreeBSD-CURRENT is for experienced > developers only; there are sharp edges, at any given moment some > things may not work, and you need to know how to recover from crashes > and catastrophic failures on your own without relying on technical > support. To add to this, if you're running -CURRENT, you should be subscribed to the FreeBSD-current mailing list. Ask questions there, but do your homework first. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message