From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 27 4:48:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A23937B990 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA33658; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:42:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006271142.HAA33658@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "cjclark@alum.mit.edu" , "Crist J. Clark" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:38:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20000626233850.D302@dialin-client.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:38:50 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: >On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:49:56PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> As I considering giving up on upgrading a box from 3.4 Stable to >> 4.X I wonder why can't upgrades be made more gradual for those >> of us following stable? > >If you want to do it the simplest way, do a binary upgrade (the >smallest binary distribution only) then do the make-world. >Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu Are there instructions anywhere on how to do this? This weekend I am going to start from scratch this particular troubled box, but in the future this may be something I may be willing to try. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message