From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 4: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCCE37B40E for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 03:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (vic-dial-196-30-233-83.mweb.co.za [196.30.233.83]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g4QAxk171906; Sun, 26 May 2002 12:59:46 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200205261259.06165@.perimeter.co.za> To: "Ivan Carey" , Subject: Re: how to update a Kernel to the latest version Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:00:52 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <00e801c2049f$bfe48190$0201a8c0@ivan> In-Reply-To: <00e801c2049f$bfe48190$0201a8c0@ivan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Sun 26 May 02 12:26, Ivan Carey wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 4.3. > How d I update a Kernel to the latest version of 4.5 without doing a > complete installation. > > I wish to maintain all the configurations and files, directories etc. learn about cvsup, then make world - refer to the freebsd handbook at www.freebsd.org. > Also how do I update other applications without over writing any > configurations etc such a Apache or PHP or Samba? learn about portupgrade - it's in the ports collection. > Thanks, > > Ivan -- Regards, Patrick O'Reilly.     ___        _            __    / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __   / __/ -_) _) /  ~  ) -_), ,-/ -_) _)  /_/  \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/     http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message