From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 22:18:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ECA37B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id eAB6H0w02928; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:17:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011110617.eAB6H0w02928@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: mtp@straylight.brsp.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade question. In-Reply-To: <20001110213106.A14942@straylight.brsp.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:17:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:31:06 -0800 Matt Pillsbury wrote: +------------------ | Normally, I'd just boot from floppies, but I don't have | a floppy drive. | | What's the easiest way to get a current sysinstall with which to | upgrade? +------------------ Is this a laptop that you can't put a floppy drive on? If it's not then the best approach is to spring for the floppy drive. that or get someone to burn the ISO install image onto a CD for you and install from that. Get a good backup of everything that is important (/etc, /var, /home) Then re-install from scratch and recover from backup as needed. Good luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message