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Ahmed Abdullahi wrote:

> 	I installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my system.  I would like to upgrade to the
> latest version, do I have to reinstall?


No, the real question is whether a binary upgrade or using cvsup to do 
the upgrade is faster. I have one system that will do a buildworld in 
30+/- minutes and I can't download an iso that fast.

You also shouldn't use the version of cvsup that came with 4.0. It has a 
bug that showed up on 9 Sep 2001. See 
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ for a better version.

Because of some makefile problems, you can't upgrade directly to version 
4.4-release, which is the current release version. The makefile problems 
are fixed in 4.4-stable (RELENG_4). If cvsup is a new word for you, a 
binary upgrade can be much easier. I can't provide any insight there 
because I haven't done one of those since I upgraded a system from 2.2.8 
to 3.1 and a lot has changed since then.

Kent


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