Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:03:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Daniel Hawton <daniel@cooltime.simplenet.com> Cc: "'stable@freebsd.org'" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810010850230.2242-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BDECB2.A8C41B00@cx991510-b.orng1.occa.home.com>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Daniel Hawton wrote: > I would like to upgrade from 2.7-RELEASE to the 3.0-SNAP is > there a file I can download to patch to it? I would venture to say that a new install from the most recent beta is the best way to go. Doing a source code upgrade and 'make world' seems like a lot of unnecessary trouble when you have a binary release that will install almost without a hitch. (Speaking from my personal experience with exactly this upgrade about a week ago.) Of course, it goes without saying that a full backup before hand is manditory. Also, the bin distribution in a fair bit larger than the 2.x series (perl5?) so if you set up your system like I do with a /usr just big enough to hold it, you may have to ditch some extras unless your adjust your partitions. I dropped the doc, info, and games distributions and fit into my old 80MB /usr with just about 1MB to spare.[1] Once 3.0-RELEASE rolls around, I'll probably re-partition and re-install. Also be aware that a fair number of ports do not currently build on 3.0. You can, of course, continue using 2.x packages if you install the appropriate compat distributions. -john [1] I keep src and X11R6 on /usr/local, a separate partition that survives upgrades. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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