From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 16:13:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4705937B43E for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rshea@thecubagroup.com) Received: from sheasili (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with SMTP id 869B21F9D3C; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:13:06 +1200 (NZST) From: "Richard Shea" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:13:51 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Binary Upgrade - How ? [was : upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3] Reply-To: rshea@thecubagroup.com Cc: kris@obsecurity.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <20010522231306.869B21F9D3C@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Is this really true ? I've got a 3.4-RELEASE machine which I've never cvsupped. [snip] > > Am I right in thinking that I can cvsup up from 3.4-R to some current level ? > > It's more work to upgrade between 3.x and 4.x by recompiling from > source -- in fact, it's probably not worth the trouble (there's a way [snip] > the upgrade path thesedays though. For upgrading to 4.3, you're best > off doing a binary upgrade. > Hi Kris - Can you just point me to a reference as what a binary upgrade involves. If I grab the CD images and just try to use them will they recognise that an installation already exists on the machine in question ? I've got a number of apps installed on the machine in question and ideally I would upgrade the OS without having to "re-install" the apps. I've never done this before (in case it wasn't already perfectly obvious ;-) so I'm sorry if I'm asking the wrong questions. I've also taken a look at mailing list archives but can't find anything too explicit on the subject. regards richard shea. ps - if this is the second version of this I'm sorry, finger trouble. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message