From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 23:25:03 2003 Return-Path: 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 0E26937B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 23:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f147.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CBE43F75 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 23:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 May 2003 23:25:02 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 10 May 2003 06:25:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] From: "clayton rollins" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:25:01 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2003 06:25:02.0233 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3760090:01C316BC] cc: epbox@yandex.ru Subject: Re: upgrading FBSD box: installing the /stand/sysinstall utility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:25:03 -0000 > >On Fri, 9 May 2003 11:31:14 Vladik Kozin wrote: > >Hi. >I intend to upgrade my 4.6 FBSD to 4.8 release. In the install.txt they say >I >should use the /stand/sysinstall utility of the release I'm going to turn >to. >But I couldn't have found any hints on how to switch to this version of >sysinstall. Is the 'libh-...' package the one to be installed? Do I have to >remove the currently installed version of sysinstall before switching to a >newer version of sysinstall. >To be laconic the question is which steps I need to take to run a newer >version of /stand/sysinstall on my system? > >Best regards. Vladik Kozin > Hi Vladik, First off, may I say, very good english! (I know about four words in Russian...) About your question, I'm not sure, but maybe you could just use the sysinstall invoked by booting from the cd. As someone who was recently considering the same thing, I'd just like to say that I took the docs advice to cvsup and buildworld and have been very happy with the decision. (I cvsup'ed to stable a while back, and haven't had any problems with stability, etc. And, the whole process took less time than researching the sysinstall upgrade.) As an advanced warning, upgrading the source via cvsup doesn't upgrade /usr/ports; you need to run a second cvsup for that. The handbook has very detailed instructions on this at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html . (A note on cvsup: it's not as hard as the instructions make it seem, you just simply use it to run the supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, after editing it for the release you want and the server closest to you. There's a list of cvs servers at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html .) Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail