From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 15:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15680 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.95]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15671 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA00430; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:15:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: francis yeung cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade to 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <199607220955.JAA13515@fyeung5.netific.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, francis yeung wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1 and have just downloaded 2.1.5-Release > to my local directory. How can I do the upgrade from 2.1 to > 2.1.5 ? Note that I have no problem doing it with the CD > distribution. Is there /stand/sysinstall parameter called upgrade ? Yes. It's item #8 I think. And yes, you can upgrade from the local FS, it just takes a while. Just make sure the file organization mirrors ftp.freebsd.org. When it asks you for the dist directory, put in the top level of that organization. For instance, we d/l's 2.1.5-RELEASE onto our ftp site, so I pointed it to the directory /usr/anon/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE. It is interesting to note that this upgrade is _slower_ than network upgrades from a local machine. I'm guessing the heavy FS activity (read/extract/write) on the sync FS is hurting it. Just an oddity. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major