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From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: lost in nowhere land on 5.2.1
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On 10/27/05, Brian Howick <brianhowick@comcast.net> wrote:
> I set up a copy of 5.2.1 RELEASE a few years back and I am trying to upgr=
ade
> it.
>
> The problem is I set it up over the net and not from a CD.. so when I try=
 to
> upgrade I am told that whatever FTP server I connect to does not have the
> files...
>
> What can I do?
>
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cvsup and make world

If you run into trouble, try upgrading to 5.3 or 5.4 first and
than to 6.0.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html