From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 0:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A4B37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8973243E75 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaeljritchie@bigpond.com) Received: from Michaels-Laptop.bigpond.com (ppp545.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.245.32]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gA98pNp6055319 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:21:24 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> X-Sender: michaeljritchie@mail.bigpond.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:21:10 +0930 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Ritchie Subject: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am currently working on two FreeBSD 4.6.2 servers, and wish to upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE. I have tried to find information about performing this task, but am having trouble trying to grasp exactly what each distribution "type" of FreeBSD means. -STABLE can be upgraded to using the (well documented) cvsup, make buildworld, mergemaster etc process, as can -CURRENT, but it would seem to me that -RELEASE is given out only as ISO images, as far as I can see. Is it possible to upgrade a 4.6.2 FreeBSD box to 4.7-RELEASE using the cvsup/make buildworld procedure, or am I better off downloading the mini-ISO or floppy disk images and running a Sysinstall upgrade from there? Is what I am wanting to do a waste of time (ie. should I just go straight to 4.7-STABLE? -- please don't ask "why upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE ... I just want to know how to do it, should I some day need it) Regards, Michael Ritchie ps. apologies if it looks like my '-stable, -release and -current's look like i'm yelling -- copied them off the fbsd ftp site. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message