From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 19:43:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from switchblade.cyberpunkz.org (switchblade.cyberpunkz.org [198.174.169.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1769A37B40E for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rob@localhost) by switchblade.cyberpunkz.org (8.11.6/CpA-TLS1.2) id f8J2hMA55777; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:43:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rob) Posted-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:43:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:43:22 -0500 From: Rob Andrews To: Mike Meyer Cc: Jim Freeze , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I install 4.4R? Message-ID: <20010918214322.C27235@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> References: <36762700@toto.iv> <15272.866.46291.398574@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="32u276st3Jlj2kUU" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15272.866.46291.398574@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:30:58PM -0500 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 --32u276st3Jlj2kUU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:30:58PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. This isn't completely true.. sysinstall can be told to install a different version in the options settings under 'Release Name' and then go about doing the upgrade of the system which is also able to be navigated from sysinstall at that time. =20 > 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. This brings me to the other point of upgrading a system. you can in most cases just use cvsup to upgrade the userland and kernel source and 'make world' to rebuild the system that way. There aren't many major configuration changes but when there are they usually make mention of them in the release notes and other places as well. Just depends I would guess on how hard you want to make upgrading your system.. :) Cheers.. --=20 Rob Andrews Administrator Cyberpunk Alliance http://www.cyberpunkz.org/ Minneapolis, MN --32u276st3Jlj2kUU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7qAZKAXwJ9YLqJJURAkqnAJ0S+Ckhe4VQljeetovJLKYOTa4RuwCeJc8k kQWura1Q+YWxoErvH1DnWB8= =xWFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --32u276st3Jlj2kUU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message