From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 2:30:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A2E37B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk) Received: from ftp.reportlab.co.uk ([194.159.4.137] helo=jessikat.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15SEoI-0006mb-0A for questions@freeBSD.ORG; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:30:30 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:29:16 +0100 To: questions@freeBSD.ORG From: Robin Becker Subject: Re: 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade References: <20010801215041.14258.qmail@kiwi.anglictina.com> <3B690B4F.8C95E3BF@i-clue.de> In-Reply-To: <3B690B4F.8C95E3BF@i-clue.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <8fY3TEtAaFySF58ErPUfo9YLW3> 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 In article <3B690B4F.8C95E3BF@i-clue.de>, Christoph Sold writes > > ..... > >/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 ... I'm very unsure about the src building mechanism. How do I go about upgrading my system to 4.3 from 4.2? My machine has low bandwidth access and I have /=17M /usr=590M /var=448M space. I have managed to download and burn a 4.3-install iso. It's very attractive for me to keep my existing applications and have a suitable base system for recovery purposes. How much space do I need to use one of the src schemes? I need hardly add that this is one of our 'important' servers and pressure to keep downtime to a minimum is important. I have a spare 10G hd lying about so I could at a pinch just add volume and use that for space except that I suppose that would be pretty pointless as I'm sure all the utilities like to point to /usr/src. -- Robin Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message