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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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