From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 16: 6:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B307F152E4 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by doc.dcoder.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05482; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:04:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:04:30 -0400 (EDT) From: David Coder To: Tony Wells Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is a dumb question. In-Reply-To: <378B91DF.3213C1B9@journalstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Tony Wells wrote: > I'm currently running 3.0-RELEASE, and want to upgrade to 3.2-RELEASE. > Do I need to download new source in order to do this or will the 'make > world' utility automatically upgrade me to the latest source? (I'm > guessing not, too easy.) > > Thanks in advance! Look at the FreeBSD handbook, the section under "Advanced Topics" on Staying Stable. You can update your source using cvsup (the easiest way, in my opinion), then make world. Once you have rebuilt the system in this way you will probably have to enter "disklabel -B" in order to update your boot blocks. dc _____________________ David Coder SysAdmin WebHosting Verio.com 703-749-7955 x1314 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message