From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 18 2:46:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from us66.grant.org (us66.grant.org [213.39.2.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9784537B67D for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from splat.grant.org (splat [213.39.2.179]) by us66.grant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA13103 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:46:19 +0100 (MET) Received: (from mgrant@localhost) by splat.grant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id LAA09927; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:46:18 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:46:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200102181046.LAA09927@splat.grant.org> From: Michael Grant To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: upgrade by reinstall Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to upgrade to releng_4 (4.x latest) from 3.5. I've been following this list for a while now and it just looks like it might be easier to reinstall than to jump through all the hoops of doing multiple upgrades. I have a second drive on my machine. What I want to do is load 4.x on that drive and then boot it. The machine is remote, I have access to the serial console but not the box physically, hence I can't put boot floppies in it. But I can run the 3.5 version of sysinstall. Can I use this version of sysinstall to load 4.x on my second drive? If so, what do I put in for the release name in the options editor? CUrrently it says "3.5-STABLE". If this isn't the way I should be doing this, what is? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message