Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:00:51 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 Message-ID: <1355853651.2501.14.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <20121218185757.f10640e0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1355852561.2501.10.camel@q> <20121218185757.f10640e0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:57 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:42:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version > > including the driver or something similar to get the driver? > > Btw. I didn't test, if the driver is part of 8.3 until now :D, but if > > IIUC I need >= 9.0. > > It would probably be the easiest way to update your source tree > (using svn as this is the default method today) and re-install > from that. I'm not sure freebsd-update can cross the "major > version border" without trouble (never tried). > > See 25.7 for details: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > But also note that freebsd-update supports a -r <version> option > as explained in 25.2.3: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > > But as I said, I've never personally tried that. > > This approach keeps all your partition settings and doesn't require > any other work to be done on that level. Thank you :) I'll read and test it later. Regards, Ralf
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