From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 1:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DFF37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA24779; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:18:32 +0200 Message-ID: <3B690B4F.8C95E3BF@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:11:59 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: konfer@anglictina.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade References: <20010801215041.14258.qmail@kiwi.anglictina.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 konfer@anglictina.com wrote: > > Hi all. > Maybe a stupid question.. > But: > is better to upgrade from FreeBSD 4.2 to 4.3 stable > using /stand/sysinstall 's upgrade > or > do it manually using sinc stable SRC tree and 'make buildworld' and so on ? > > what is the difference between sysinstal's and manual upgrade? > which is safely ? > > sorry, this is my first upgrade, so it's better to ask :). /stand/sysinstall can update to -RELEASE only: It needs pre-built binaries. -STABLE or -SECURITY have to be built on your box from source. Read the handbook about staying current, and try it for yourself. You need about a day or two for the first time, later on, you'd do it within minutes. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message