From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:59:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18639 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18595 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00351; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tim Palmer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1, 3c590 cards and updating In-Reply-To: <31E529D2.6D21@hudsonnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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