From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 2:41:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6051E37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 02:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl) Received: from cybertron ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id GFSG9H03.2R7; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:41:41 +0200 Message-ID: <003101c10212$082390e0$231fa8c0@dekruijff.nl> From: "Alfatrion" To: "vass D" , References: <20010701093300.77244.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: upgrade - newbie Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:40:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 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 > hi. wonder if anyone can help me with the following. > i got freebsd 4.2 on my HD and want to go to 4.3. i > have a 4.3 iso image on cd. do i upgrade the system > from /stand/sysinstall? > > tried to do the above but didnt quite work. when i > selected to update all the sources a message > poped-up saying that /usr/src already exists and > that this is not the proper way to install sourses > and that i should be using cvsup or ctm. > > i dont wanna use cvsup or ctm cause i alredy have a > 600M iso image... > > any ideas? > > > thanx in advance > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > I havend tried this my self, but 1) rm -rf /usr/src 2) install the source from 4.3 3) Used cvsup for the must recent updates. 4) follow up on the manual from here (make world and such) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message