From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 29 07:35:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10570 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10562 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu ((IDENT root)@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.9.0.Beta6) with ESMTP id KAA01517; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:34:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu ((IDENT sendmail)@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.9.0.Beta6) with SMTP id KAA15908; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:34:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.9.0.Beta6) with SMTP id KAA15903; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:34:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jaye Mathisen Subject: Re: Anybody having luck with upgrading *old* 3.0 SMP installs to new? In-Reply-To: <199812291020.LAA26775@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Upgrading way older systems (> ~ 1 year) from source however is > virtually impossible due to a ton of bootstrap problems. It's > probably easier to install the binaries from a 3.0 CD then. My system is older than that, and I have had no problem whatsoever upgrading from source. However, it is easier to use binaries. Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message