From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 11:20:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14061 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14051 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA14957; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:18:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:18:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Vladimir Kushnir cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from some 3.0-SNAP: how? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > > > Sorry for probably stupid question, but how do I begin upgrading starting > > > from some snapshot? (Say, I've got 3.0-971020-SNAP). > Sorry if I was unclear here. I mean, upgrade from some fixed date snapshot > to the current source. As long as you stay on the 3.0 branch, you're OK. You can either grab the boot floppy, boot it & use the `upgrade' option OR you can build directly from source. The upgrade option is pretty straightforward, the build from source option now has a tutorial on http://www.freebsd.org/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major