From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 19:31: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A475B37B40F for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27764 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2001 02:30:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15272.866.46291.398574@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:30:58 -0500 To: Jim Freeze Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I install 4.4R? In-Reply-To: <36762700@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Jim Freeze types: > Hi > > I installed 4.3R yesterday and saw that > 4.4 was out. So I tried to install 4.4. > I did this by booting from the 4.3R cd > and installing from ftp. I thought that would > get me the latest, but I got 4.3. So, I > did the upgrade in /stand/sysinstall--also > from ftp. It did not give me an option of > what to upgrade to, and when it was done, > I had 4.3. > > So, my question is, how do I get 4.4 installed > without making a 4.4 CD and, is it worth it? Sysinstall will only install the version that it was released with, and trying to do things other than installs with it on a different release isn't safe. You can do the ftp install of 4.4 using the 4.4 floppies. You'll need to FTP the images and make them yourself. Yes, it's worth it. At the very least, apply the security patches that have been made to RELENG_4_3 since it was released. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message