From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 12:32:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10534 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:32:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10525 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:32:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (root@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA12128; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:32:13 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA05178; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: bill@interlinks.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Versions of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, John Sconiers wrote: >you should look into cvs That being said I will add that using the boot.flp to upgrade to 3.0 and ELF was painless for me with the exception of a clobbered /root/.profile. I had previously tried to use 'cvsup' and 'make world' to upgrade from 2.2-STABLE but my builds were dying on errors from the assembler. As I am not a super-hacker, I gave up an used the boot.flp. It worked great. After getting 3.0 installed from the boot.flp my 'make world' now builds to completion. I can recommend using the boot.flp to upgrade based on my little bit of experience. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message