Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 04:11:08 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Ben Luey <lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Binary upgrade -- pgk_add? ports? Message-ID: <20010927040357.N857-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109262214420.91685-100000@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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