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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade
To: fozekizer@attbi.com (Charles Pelletier)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:10:31 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: oess30@mail.com (Randy Oong), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <003701c26123$1d5d5240$32040101@hume> from "Charles Pelletier" at Sep 20, 2002 10:58:13 PM
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> 
> refer to the handbook for that one. you should be reading it anyways. and
> also, i know for a fact (having had installation and upgrade problems
> before) that the archives are full of helpful tutorials on upgrading to a
> more recent release.
> :)
> --charlie pelletier
> --litmus(mp3.com/litmus)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Oong" <oess30@mail.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:45 PM
> Subject: Upgrade
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I''ve bought your FreeBSD(4.5) sometime ago, and only started installation
> about last week and discover from the web that there is 4.6.2.
> > Please do enlighten on how shall I upgrade, and how shall I do security
> patches.

If you really have only started to install it, forget installing 4.5.

Instead, download either the CD iso-s or floppy images for 4.6.2 and
start fresh with a new install of 4.6.2.   Then you can have the joy
of upgrading from there to -stable or 4.7 or ...

////jerry

> >
> > Thanks,
> > Randy.
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