Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:59:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Marco Greene <mwegreene@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches &Upgrades Message-ID: <20031015165932.GG39271@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F17Zf4zydiVvqX000051a4@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F17Zf4zydiVvqX000051a4@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 15), Marco Greene said: > 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? You may have left out the make buildkernel / make installkernel step. You've got updated userland binaries, but the kernel is still 4.2. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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