From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 14 20:41:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25871 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.lariat.org ([129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25866 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solo.lariat.org ([129.72.251.10]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08106 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 21:39:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970514164558.007071f0@lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@lariat.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:45:58 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: What are these "upgrade" files? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Am interested in installing 2.2.1-RELEASE on a few machines this coming weekend. However, I understand that important improvements have been made since it was released, and was therefore looking at installing the 970422-RELENG snapshot, which several people have recommended as more stable (especially with Adaptec host adapters). Is this the best version to use? Will the floppy disk do a proper upgrade from 2.1.x via the Net? Also, on the FreeBSD FTP server, I see some files marked 22upgrade-YY.MM.DD.tgz. What are these? Is it necessary to install them to get the latest ports and packages? --Brett Glass