From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 10 11: 3:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53AFB37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73AE43ED4 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:03:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AF35C; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:59:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1348F2FDAB2; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:03:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:03:14 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Lute Mullenix Cc: "freebsd-newbies @ FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20021210190314.GK56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Lute Mullenix , "freebsd-newbies @ FreeBSD. ORG" References: <200212090952.21853.pacman@huji.ac.il> <20021209202458.GB56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021210161215.GE1454@gothmog.gr> <20021210120359.278ba104.lute@cableone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021210120359.278ba104.lute@cableone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org # lute@cableone.net / 2002-12-10 12:03:59 -0600: > So far I have only done one upgrade, that was from 4.6 to 4.7 and that > was just the binary upgrade, download the two floppies, boot, yada > yada. Next go round would like to try a source upgrade, but it sounds > kind of scary, though I do install all my software via the ports. > (Mozilla takes a looong time to build) So maybe it won't be that bad, > but just a little unsure about how you go about getting all the source > needed. funny, I've never done a single binary update. :) anyway, cvsup setup is quite easy, and the reward is sweeeet: # cd /usr/src # make update # make buildworld buildkernel installkernell installworld # mergemaster -si # shutdown -r now (singleuser / reboot in documented places recommended for the faint of heart :) I don't know how hard/easy binary update is, but I guess it can't get much easier than this. (there've been complaints about mergemaster being too hard to grok, which I don't understand) -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message