From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 02:05:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17794 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25370; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:04:24 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA15882; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:03:23 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980722100320.64388@iii.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:03:20 +0100 To: Sue Blake Cc: Eric Hake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd 2.2.7 References: <3.0.5.32.19980721211039.0079ab20@pop.netaddress.com> <3.0.5.32.19980721233344.007afe10@clean.net> <19980722172903.50769@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <19980722172903.50769@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:29:03PM +1000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 05:29:03PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > [I'm shooting this over to freebsd-questions because that's where we > ask (even newbie) questions.] > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 11:33:44PM -0700, Eric Hake wrote: > > Newbie question --> If I have a 2.2.6 machine running just fine, and I > > want to upgrade to 2.2.7, how do you do that without buying the 2.2.7 CDs > > and reinstalling? > > > > Can you somehow download it, and install it, or is there a lot more too it > > than that? > > I guess you can read up on the gotchas to do with upgrading, download > the new floppy and do an FTP installation, selecting the upgrade > option, but I couldn't find this in the Handbook or FAQ. Is it my > searching skills (again!) or is it a gap that needs filling? Section 18 of the Handbook covers how to stay -current or -stable with FreeBSD, including how to use CVSup to update your copy of the source code, and how to use 'make world' to rebuild your system. A "Upgrading from one one release to the next" section (a new 18.3 probably, with everything below that bumped down by one) would probably be a useful thing for someone to write. Anyone with experience doing that care to put fingers to keyboard? N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message