From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 21:27:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA12368 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.224]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA12360 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00256; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ian Kallen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199607221727.RAA13928@gamespot.com> 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, 22 Jul 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > Well, it's time for me to embark on my first FBSD upgrade. I have > 2.1 installed off the CD and from what I've read it looks like I want > to run > sup /usr/share/examples/sup/stable-supfile If you want to use sup. You can also do a standard ftp install through the boot floppy (which IMHO would be a better way to go rather than waiting for the tree to build). Just back up /etc before starting. Besides that, the example supfile shouldn't be used stock; you should modify it for the distributions you want and for a close supsite (don't use sup.freebsd.org if you can help it, it's _very_ loaded!). > It looks like there is also an Upgrade item in /sysinstall but it > requires being booted from a floppy. Is this a preferable method to > pursue? *I* believe so. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major