From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 12:31:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07567 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt051n19.san.rr.com (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07549 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt051n19.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16914; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <34BE71ED.6DC3BC87@dal.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:30:37 -0800 From: Studded Organization: DALnet IRC Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-0112-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael P. Deslippe" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating References: <010701bd21bb$5f758460$04e5d2cc@1611kjb.columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Michael P. Deslippe wrote: > > I originally installed 2.1.6 which has been running for a little over a > year. I am getting more concerned over the security holes and want to > upgrade the system to the latest version. I tried the "update" method and > get absolutely nothing, it errors out and says it can't update. Is there > another method for updating, or do I just have to dump the whole system and > start from scratch? Take a look at http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/upgrade.html and tell me if that helps. :) I rewrote the "upgrade from source" tutorial that's on the freebsd www site. Good luck, Doug