From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 1: 6:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEF641A4 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:11:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p74.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.74]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA22822; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:10:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38A0F6CE.C63E0B08@ds.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:10:38 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Tim Ryder , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support References: <20000207212016.7816.qmail@web1305.mail.yahoo.com> <20000208215010.C11196@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You'll do at least the basic kernel / buildworld / installworld thing, > so installing 3.3-RELEASE and cvsup'ing to the latest 3.4-STABLE sources > shouldn't take long. I've done it at least twice. Once for fun, and > the other time because I trashed my installation while playing with that > evil M$-thing called Windows '98. > > Having done the thing (from 3.3-RELEASE => 3.4-STABLE) I can assure you > it won't take long. At least the source update part. The compilation > of the `world' depends on your specific hardware setup, and I don't know > how long it will take--not until I've seen it done at least once. It's been my experience that minor upgrades (eg: 3.3 -> 3.4) are fairly simple - however the major upgrades have proven to be a bit more complicated. I remember the upgrade from 2.X -> 3.0 and I can say it wasn't pretty. I finally broke down and did a clean install and migrated everything back over. Just my $0.02 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message