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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:29:59 GMT
From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
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Subject: docs/2810: Tutorial submission: Upgrading FreeBSD from source
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>Number:         2810
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Tutorial submission detailing how to upgrade FBSD from source
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 24 15:40:02 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nik Clayton
>Organization:
Blueberry Design
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

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>Description:

As a penance for wasting a few folk's time with some of my recent SNAFU's
when upgrading 2.1.5 to 2.1.7 (Hi Jordan), I've written up a document
describing (hopefully accurately) the steps that need to be gone
through when re-making the world, and the precise meaning of the phrase

    "You must merge in /etc by hand"

that gets bandied about every now and then.

I've placed this in

    <URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/FBSD_UPGRADE>

and would welcome feedback from anyone who knows more about this subject
than I do.

At the moment, the document is plain text (I don't know LinuxDoc, would
prefer not to (I'd rather spend the time learning DocBook, but don't
know of a handy tutorial -- references appreciated)).     

I'm kind of hoping that with a bit of peer review it can become a
candidate for the tutorials page, and ultimately spawn a new section
of the handbook.

As I say, feedback welcomed. Hope it's useful.   

This message also sent to doc@freebsd.org.

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