From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 19:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-9.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F6837B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 19:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B40066BF7; Tue, 22 May 2001 19:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:42:40 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Richard Shea Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dougy@brizzie.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3 Message-ID: <20010522194240.A34063@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz>; <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010522230955.806501F9E39@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010522230955.806501F9E39@deborah.paradise.net.nz>; from rshea@thecubagroup.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:10:40AM +1200 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 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:10:40AM +1200, Richard Shea wrote: > Hi Kris - Can you just point me to a reference as what a binary=20 > upgrade involves. If I grab the CD images and just try to use them=20 > will they recognise that an installation already exists on the=20 > machine in question ? I've got a number of apps installed on the=20 > machine in question and ideally I would upgrade the OS without=20 > having to "re-install" the apps. There's an option to sysinstall to perform an upgrade. Look at the docs on the website on how to download the new version and the possibilities for how to install it. Kris --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7CyOfWry0BWjoQKURAkFkAKDE+E2Gqqaw+2pz3sLhh1hPOEEiugCaA7Qt MAzYKDPNvAC3rsbxNIsq/5k= =tZbj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message