Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 10:37:22 -0500 From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: What's "Best" upgrade path? Message-ID: <000c01c127fb$ad28eea0$8f6896d1@granitepost.com>
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I have a FreeBSD v4.1 machine that was installed from the August 2000 CD's. It's not currently connected to the network. I'd like to upgrade it to the latest version with the various security fixes, get the sound working, and the latest version of KDE. I'd like to do this while minimizing bandwidth. I have the v4.3 April 2000 CD's. There's nothing significant on the machine that I want to save (except the high scores from KDE's Shisen-Sho game). I'm thinking I should completely reinstall the machine with 4.3, then upgrade from there. Any suggestions? BTW, I'm getting a "d:\floppies\kern.flp - File is too big" error when trying to make the boot floppies from the 4.3 CD's. The floppy is freshly formatted without system files and shows 1,457,664 bytes available on disk. Is this a known bug, or am I missing something. Creating the boot floppies is NOT working as documented. Maybe I've got a bad CD? Something else? I'm kind of leery of installing from those CD's until I figure out what's wrong with the simple procedure of creating boot floppies. Thanks, Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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