From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:29:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23742 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23737 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:29:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA20645; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:28:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:28:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Anil John cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup upgrade procedure question..... In-Reply-To: <199701282345.SAA29542@onramp.i95.net> 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 Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Anil John wrote: > > You're doing this the hard way. You're running towards doing a > > 'make world' which I don't think you want to do. > > > > Instead, save your copy of ppp somewhere safe, make and boot the > > 2.1.6 boot floppy, and perform the 'upgrade' procedure. See below > > for my upgrade checklist. > > I take it that when I use 'upgrade', one of the options I am given is > to pull down the src by ftp? Any idea how long this would take? My > ISP times me out after 3 hours.... Actually, you can pull all the files, organize them by distribution, put them somewhere on your UNIX filesystem, use the 'ufs' install method, and point it to the files. I did this to upgrade our master server, since we mirror a local copy of the FreeBSD distribution to it. It's slower than local Ethernet, but it's better than dialing in over modem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major