From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 13 22:26:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05627 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05288 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listuser@netspace.net.au) Received: from d1o1.telia.com (root@d1o1.telia.com [195.67.240.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07874 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:25:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from doorway.home.lan (t6o1p59.telia.com [195.67.241.119]) by d1o1.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA18347 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:25:57 +0100 (CET) Received: (from listuser@localhost) by doorway.home.lan (8.8.8/8.8.7) id GAA07934 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:54:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listuser) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:54:53 +0100 (CET) From: List User Message-Id: <199812140554.GAA07934@doorway.home.lan> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Newsgroups: freebsd.questions Path: root From: John Sconiers Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Received: from adam.enteract.com (jrs@206.54.252.1) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 1998 00:41:28 -0000 To: Tuomas Tiihonen Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Private News Host Precedence: bulk Message-ID: Delivered-To: vmailer-questions@freebsd.org X-Uidl: 1eecf29071f9b410f845f235dad7655a X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000201be26e9$fecf8180$247464c2@arkku.reactivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:41:16 GMT > Hello! HI > Just a simple question: > How can I upgrade FreeBSD 2.2.6 to > a newer release? Please give me some > pointers, so I can figure the rest > out. The easiest way would probably have to be cvs. I used the port cvsupit and it did everything and worked great. This is assuming you have internet connectivity. Another options would be do a cd upgrade. Or you could run /stand/sysinstall and do the upgrade that way. It lets you use a remote site...zip drive...cd-rom ..etc. JOHN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message