Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Palmer <tim@hudsonnet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1, 3c590 cards and updating Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728165527.226P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31E529D2.6D21@hudsonnet.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Tim Palmer wrote: > Well, I'm a mostly happy BSD newbie. At the moment, the main > thing I can't do is talk to my 3Com 3c590 PCI ethernet card. I > understand it is not supported in 2.1, but is in one of the later SNAPs. > I'm unclear about doing this update thang. Do I really have to "sup" or > "CTM" the entire tree? I realize there are many dependancies, but is > there a way to be more limited about updating? I'll get adventurous > later, but at the moment me needs are fairly basic Nope. Just install like you did when you installed before, but instead backup the /etc directory first then select 'update' after booting the boot floppy. That counts for -RELEASEs and -SNAPs. 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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