From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 12:28:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583CF16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76BE43D55 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:28:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([69.172.31.81]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with SMTP id <20050517122846.KUSK8952.mta9.adelphia.net@barbish>; Tue, 17 May 2005 08:28:46 -0400 From: "fbsd_user" To: "Joel" , Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:28:45 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20050517202126.294A.REES@ddcom.co.jp> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: How to use snapshots X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:28:48 -0000 > > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ > > I know how to use the normal FTP mirror site to fetch the .iso file > and burn a bootable cdrom or use cvs to build the sources to > recompile the complete system. Then you should, as nearly as I understand it, know how to install or upgrade to a snapshot. Try re-reading 19.2.2 Staying Stable with FreeBSD Or were you wondering which tag to pick up. Take a look at sections A.5 and A.6. I used cvsup, and I think I used the tag RELENG_5 to get the most recent stable at that point. The steps for buildworld were straightforward, though I had plenty of time to do other things while waiting. I used portupgrade, which is linked somewhere in those pages, to bring the ports up to the current kernel and userland after that also took a fair amount of time. (Days, in fact.) And I did have to read those pages and several others they reference several times while I was following the instructions to get a good idea of what was happening. Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you. _______________________________________________ You really confused me now. Are you saying ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ is a CVS server???? I think you are still talking about the normal cvsup source update method which targets a bunch of different cvsup servers. ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/pub/FreeBSD/i386/ does not look like an cvs server. Have you ever used this snapshots ftp site before????