From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 09:56:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D96616A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f17.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C861943FBF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:56:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwegreene@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:56:06 -0700 Received: from 207.61.239.60 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:56:06 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.61.239.60] X-Originating-Email: [mwegreene@hotmail.com] From: "Marco Greene" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:56:06 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Oct 2003 16:56:06.0781 (UTC) FILETIME=[39C202D0:01C3933D] Subject: Patches &Upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:56:07 -0000 New to FreeBSD. Have looked through the documentation at length and have figure almost everything out that I am trying to use but have a few questions. Have been working with other versions of UNIX, mainly Solaris and AIX. We have 4 servers running production using 4.2 and I have been testing the upgrade procedure that is documented. I have tried: cvsup...make buildworld...make installworld. Took a long time but it seemed to work...however, when I rebooted, still said 4.2...I was expecting 4.8. How can you confirm current version of FreeBSD. Shouldn't it say 4.8? I also tried the CD upgrade process...didn't work...when it tried to start installing the distribution it said that it couldn't mount the cd onto /dist. Installing from this particular CD seems to work fine. However, booting from the CD and doing an upgrade seems a little strange. Now about patches... You don't seem to download patches the way you do for Solaris or AIX. It looks like you have to do the cvsup...make buildworld and make installworld thing. This seems like a risky way to do patch installs. Are there pre-packaged binary patches available and if so what is the patching mechanism that should be used. TIA, Marco mwegreene@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail