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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:56:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Steve Leibel <stevel@bluetuna.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to do a no-brainer 4.3 upgrade?
Message-ID:  <20010911044632.L18143-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <v04210106b7c2ce9cddf9@[66.108.57.109]>

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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Steve Leibel wrote:

>
> I've been running 3.2 for a long time and I'd like to upgrade to 4.3
>
> What is the most simple, no-brainer way for me to do this?  Needless
> to say I've already installed a lot of software on top of 3.2
> (Apache, mysql, postgres, all kinds of Perl modules, etc.) and I
> don't want to have to reinstall everything.
fetch the 4.3 installation floppies (you will need two of
them now) kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and boot them.
Select  UPGRADE and start upgrading the bin, man and all the
compat distributions.

May the Force be with you.

Uli.

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