Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:46:55 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: richard <richard@another.com.au> Subject: Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help! Message-ID: <200402120946.55492.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAYzSznVi3fkWJYCR3viDFqMKAAAAQAAAAAzAux2hWc06w71bJEqiWHwEAAAAA@another.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade off a > 4.9 CD. All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it > can't even extract the bin distribution and fails. > > Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through? > Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow. > > Cheers, > Richard Richard, If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and install new sources over FTP via cvsup. Once you have a correct supfile, it's pretty brainless. Most of us have some upgrading done via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended. HTH -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAK5/vzdyDbTMRQIYRAnb8AJwK/DIeCFMGlqXt6lX6yuqP64XHAACfUSer sC5Kya6QCET90VcNr7+Y+cM= =V4j9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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