From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 11 23:24:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA01271 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 23:24:05 -0800 Received: from Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Xenon.Stanford.EDU [36.28.0.25]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA01265 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 23:23:54 -0800 Received: by Xenon.Stanford.EDU (5.61+IDA/25-Xenon-eef) id AA27119; Sat, 11 Feb 95 21:12:29 -0800 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 21:12:29 -0800 (PST) From: Terry Lee To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Need 'updater' as part of install. Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any better way to 'update' FreeBSD instead of completely installing a new system when a snapshot comes out? This will be important when Release 2.1 comes out and 2.0 users want to upgrade right? Right now I use the installation boot disk and use the fixit mode to install new snapshots on my existing system. This of course wipes out much of my configuration files. I know I can do a make world after installing just the src distribution, but of course that takes forever. The first method also causes down time too. Any better ways for now? Terry