From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 14:37:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DD6106575B for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net (relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138E08FC14 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAFNOgUnUnw4T/2dsb2JhbADMQoQQBg Received: from pih-relay06.plus.net ([212.159.14.19]) by relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 29 Jan 2009 14:37:43 +0000 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay06.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LSY1X-0003FG-7s for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:43 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LSY1W-00017w-J8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:43 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <94136a2c0901280332n7301fe50tc85408a9f20c6a22@mail.gmail.com> <49817974.3030307@snaffler.net> <49819ED0.5030003@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <49819ED0.5030003@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901291437.42413.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 1dc73c480d7b99e901ef44e10189d12d Subject: Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:37:46 -0000 On Thursday 29 January 2009, Akenner wrote: > For some reason if you follow along line by line in the book "FreeBSD > Unleashed Second edition" which was written and came with 5.0 on CD, > it doesn't work at all for some reason. I think there must have been > a few changes in the way things are done between these versions but I > couldn't get those instructions to work at all. I'm sure it works > great on 5.0 but I kind of fell for 7.1 like a school kid lol. It's well worth getting yourself a copy of Michael Lucas's "Absolute FreeBSD" 2nd edition. It's an excellent companion for 7.x. -- Mike Clarke