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From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: Feiyi Wang <feiyi@stone.csc.ncsu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: upgrade
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Feiyi Wang wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Can somebody tell me how to upgrade my current 2.1.6 Release
> > to the 2.1.7 Release ?
> 
> > Will /stnad/sysinstall upgrade menu do?
> 
> Very nicely.
> 
> 
> FreeBSD Upgrade Checklist: 

[Stuff deleted]

	Another way of doing this is to ftp each part of the distribution
and run the install.sh script but remember to back up /etc, then after
installing everything, restore /etc and update the /etc stuff
accordinally.  Rebuild a kernel and reboot.


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