From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 18:45:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA26499 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from argon.linkzone.com (argon.linkzone.com [204.182.59.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA26486 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlt@linkzone.com) Received: from localhost (mlt@localhost) by argon.linkzone.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17873; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:43:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:43:38 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Turrin To: Studded cc: Brian Clapper , Richard Balue , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing . . . In-Reply-To: <34B1DB46.A030229E@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Studded wrote: > Mark Turrin wrote: > > > > Is there a FAQ somwhere that walks you through the upgrade process. I > > tried to do it but ended up just reformatting and starting fresh. > > I've updated the "Upgrading from source" tutorial that's on > www.freebsd.org. Check out http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/upgrade.html > and let me know what you think. :) > Hello Doug, I checked out the site and I think this information will be very helpful. The process is explained very thoroughly. My only concern was that the complexity and time envolved to complete the upgrade. It seems one has to weigh the difference between installing fresh from CD or walking the upgrade tightrope. In many ways a fresh install is so much simpler and faster if one has backups to restore user data from. The sysinstall program spoils you. :-) Thanks for all your efforts. ___________________________________________________________________ Mark L. Turrin Save the whales...collect the whole set. mlt@linkzone.com