From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 12: 5:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F3937B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from us-webmasters.com (us-webmasters.com [207.159.139.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC4043E6A for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: from xyz.netins.net (batv-01-013.dialup.netins.net [216.248.109.14]) by us-webmasters.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17451; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020921140231.048ce360@us-webmasters.com> X-Sender: wd@us-webmasters.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:04:59 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "W. D." Subject: Re: Upgrade In-Reply-To: <200209211110.g8LBAVs22301@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <003701c26123$1d5d5240$32040101@hume> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:10 9/21/2002, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > 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 ... What about a situation where you've 'inherited' a box with 4.4 that is online and working and want to upgrade the security patches. How does one do that? Start Here to Find It Fast!=A9 -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-pa= ge/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message