From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 21:58:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27145 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from relay7.jaring.my (relay7.jaring.my [192.228.128.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27139 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jahan@pc.jaring.my) Received: from pc.jaring.my (j49.ptl34.jaring.my [161.142.114.63]) by relay7.jaring.my (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06824; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 13:57:22 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: <3487880D.D2ABA112@pc.jaring.my> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:50:21 +0700 From: jahan Reply-To: jahan@jjsoft.com Organization: J & J Software Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" CC: jahan@jjsoft.com Subject: Re: 2.2.1 upgrade References: <34863BFF.B8D09A0D@pc.jaring.my> <3486FFA8.898D291D@dal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wao, wao , :) :), thank you, thank you. Studded wrote: > > jahan wrote: > > > > Doug White wrote: > > > > You'd be better off upgrading the entire OS. > > > > How ? Buy another CD or another 200th time trying download ? I don't > > understand, why these pakages downloads are so big. why not break it > > chunks ? > > Actually the stuff you need to do the whole OS is chunked up for you. > :) You want to check out the www.freebsd.org page, under Documentation > there is a section on ugrading from source. Given your connection > problems that's probably your best bet because you can d/l the > approximately 220k tarballs for the source at your leisure, then once > you have all the sources the re-compile is all on your machine. Just > make backups of everything you think is important. :) > > Good luck, > > Doug