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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: Binary upgrade -- pgk_add? ports?
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Hi Ben!


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Ben Luey wrote:

> I've got a pretty old freebsd install based on, I think, release 3.2. I
> want to upgrade it to 4.4. I've tried cvsup'ing the source for both 3.5.1
> and 4.4 but I can't run make buildworld (errors about strlcpy). So I want
> to try a binary upgrade.
dd the installation floppies of 4.4-RELEASE and use the
upgrade mechanism. It will tell you where your old
configurations and your old kernel are kept - in case
anything goes wrong.

Good Luck!

Uli.


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