From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 7:39:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA9437B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 07:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13uckZ-00042m-00; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:39:27 +0200 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:39:27 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: weecktor nemckoff Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install/upgrade to FreeBSD-4.1.1 Message-ID: <20001111173927.H6201@draenor.org> References: <87em0iiwh3.fsf@localhost.nowhere.do> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87em0iiwh3.fsf@localhost.nowhere.do>; from sb@vlink.ru on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:23:04PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, You could either do it that way (using /stand/sysinstall), though I've never done it that way, and am not sure if it would work. Your other alternative is to get the complete source for 4.1.1 and make world. You can find more information on upgrading via source code at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Cheers, Marc On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:23:04PM +0300, weecktor nemckoff wrote: > Hi there.. > > I have an old CD-ROM device, it can't boot up install program from CD. At > the same time my floppy-drive is dead enough, so I can't format and create > any bootable disk.. My current OS is FreeBSD-3.3, can I upgrade it up to > FreeBSD-4.1.1 just by unpacking sources from cd-rom directories bin/, doc/, > src/, what-else-i-need/, then compile kernel as in ordinary case? (I > didn't forget to backup /etc ;-) > > Thanks for your attention. > > bye.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message