Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:50:21 +0700 From: jahan <jahan@pc.jaring.my> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jahan@jjsoft.com Subject: Re: 2.2.1 upgrade Message-ID: <3487880D.D2ABA112@pc.jaring.my> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971203164432.3649B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <34863BFF.B8D09A0D@pc.jaring.my> <3486FFA8.898D291D@dal.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3487880D.D2ABA112>