From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 12:33:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h008.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F322E37B417 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 4534 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2001 12:33:00 -0800 Received: from 65.85.225.74 (HELO workstation10) by smtp.priorart.com (209.228.33.214) with SMTP; 30 Nov 2001 12:33:00 -0800 X-Sent: 30 Nov 2001 20:33:00 GMT From: "Ahmed Abdullahi" To: "Kent Stewart" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" , "Copy to Self" Subject: RE: Upgrading Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:32:57 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <3C07DFA8.8050708@owt.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks all... best ragards, ahmed -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:36 PM To: Ahmed Abdullahi Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Upgrading 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 > > Thanks, > --Ahmed > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message