Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:57:57 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 Message-ID: <20121218185757.f10640e0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1355852561.2501.10.camel@q> References: <1355852561.2501.10.camel@q>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:42:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version > including the driver or something similar to get the driver? > Btw. I didn't test, if the driver is part of 8.3 until now :D, but if > IIUC I need >= 9.0. It would probably be the easiest way to update your source tree (using svn as this is the default method today) and re-install from that. I'm not sure freebsd-update can cross the "major version border" without trouble (never tried). See 25.7 for details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html But also note that freebsd-update supports a -r <version> option as explained in 25.2.3: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html But as I said, I've never personally tried that. This approach keeps all your partition settings and doesn't require any other work to be done on that level. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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