From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 2:53:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-28.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290DF37B71A for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2117966E9B; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:53:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:53:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gustaf Tham Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Upgrade w Release or Toolkit CDs? Message-ID: <20010320025314.B17952@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010320105958.4FE9.GUS@algonet.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010320105958.4FE9.GUS@algonet.se>; from gus@algonet.se on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:19:32AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:19:32AM +0100, Gustaf Tham wrote: > Hello. New to FreeBSD, some experience from Linux and > stone-age UNIX. >=20 > I'm using a single-CD 4.2 release on a PII notebook with lots of memory, > and connect to the internet over the phone line -- expensive! Don't rule out upgrading via source using cvsup to update your sources - it is quite bandwidth-efficient, and works very well over a modem link. If you track -stable regularly (say, every few weeks), cvsup should only take 10 minutes or less to update your sources. Kris --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6tzaZWry0BWjoQKURAqUVAJ47C8F+v4e/nQfubu6xer8ygL5nWACfQVQx TdZJ0Orb1S+Oz/OPIyOoqBw= =kM13 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message