From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 13:14:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA16253 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net1.netview.net (netview.net [199.3.74.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA16246 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona ([199.3.71.88]) by net1.netview.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA07418 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:14:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:14:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960805151522.0099cffc@netview.net> X-Sender: jrclark@netview.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: Ready for 2.1-STABLE -> 2.1.5-RELEASE (best way?) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again fellow FreeBSD-ers... The following is from the INSTALL.TXT file of the 2.1.5-RELEASE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What this upgrade will attempt to do is best summarized thusly: 1. fsck and mount all file systems chosen in the label editor. 2. Ask for a location to preserve your /etc directory into and do so. 3. Extract all selected distributions on top of your existing system. 4. Copy certain obvious files back from the preserved /etc, leaving the rest of the /etc file merge up to the user. 5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before rebooting into the new system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- It would seem to me the best way to do this would be to fetch the entire /usr/src subdir and 'make world' -- like I did when I went 2.1-RELEASE -> 2.1-STABLE. Anyone else try this / see a problem? Where do I find the /usr/src? Thanks again, John Clark [jc@netview.net]