From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 2:56:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FC537B416 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 02:56:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA27879; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 02:56:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5E68EE.9000902@owt.com> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 02:56:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading 4.4 to 4.5? References: <20020204103648.31275.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Bsd Neophyte wrote: > Is it possible to do an upgrade w/o doing a reinstall? > > Would I simply update my ports and then do a "make install"... or is there > another way? > > OR... if someone can point me to a URL that gives the step-by-step > instructions... that would also help. The ports and the OS version aren't coupled. That is why you cvsup "tag=." for the ports. The instructions for upgrading FreeBSD from 4.4 > 4.5 are already on your system. You will find them around line 349+/- in /usr/src/UPDATING. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message