From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 04:55:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 04:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15242 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 04:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zyExk-0000fX-00; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:54:57 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA02922; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:54:24 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05955; Thu, 7 Jan 99 12:54:23 GMT Message-Id: <3694AE77.D48940B5@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 12:54:15 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Reza Tahir Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 upgrade to 2.2.8 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reza Tahir wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm currently using FreeBSD 2.2.7 from cheapbytes. Now I just got version > 2.2.8 (Walnut Creek). > My question how do I upgrade it? I read it from a person in the freebsd > mailing list that it is quite hard to do so especially the ".elf" thing. > What's that? and Is this true? elf only applies to 3.0 > OR I just simply run /stand/sysinstall, put > the 2.2.8 it and proceed till the end? Please advise. Yes, boot from the CD if your PC can, if not make a boot floppy and boot from that, then select upgrade from the install menu, select the distributions you want (i.e. the same as you already have) and let it run > Thanks > You're welcome > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message