From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 23:13:31 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA11299 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA11292 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:13:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00416; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:13:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:13:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Randy DuCharme cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading X11R6 to 6.1 In-Reply-To: <32BEA3FB.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone's done this (upgrade) and if so, what was > the best way to go about it. You should be able to extract the components from ftp.freebsd.org..../XF8632/XF32*.tgz into /usr/X11R6. You don't need everything, just the bits you installed before. I think you can use sysinstall too -- just MOUNT your filesystems, do a custom install and just install X. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major