From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 11:40:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21588 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from jason.garman.net (pm106-02.dialip.mich.net [192.195.231.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA21546 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1707 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Feb 1997 07:38:40 -0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 02:38:40 -0500 From: garman@jason.garman.net (Jason Garman) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: on upgrading from 2.1.7 to 2.2 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (70% of Full) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 2.1.7-RELEASE Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to upgrade my freebsd 2.1.7 machine to 2.2... I was wondering, is it better/easier/faster to download the sources and make world or to upgrade using the make floppy image, download binaries method (I'd want the sources anyhow)... any pitfalls/advantages of either approach? Thanks, -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us