Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE

[Michael Ritchie]

I am currently working on two FreeBSD 4.6.2 servers, and wish to upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE. I have tried to find information about performing this task, but am having trouble trying to grasp exactly what each distribution "type" of FreeBSD means. -STABLE can be upgraded to using the (well documented) cvsup, make buildworld, mergemaster etc process, as can -CURRENT, but it would seem to me that -RELEASE is given out only as ISO images, as far as I can see. Is it possible to upgrade a 4.6.2 FreeBSD box to 4.7-RELEASE using the cvsup/make buildworld procedure, or am I better off downloading the mini-ISO or floppy disk images and running a Sysinstall upgrade from there? Is what I am wanting to do a waste of time (ie. should I just go straight to 4.7-STABLE? -- please don't ask "why upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE ... I just want to know how to do it, should I some day need it)

Regards,
Michael Ritchie

ps. apologies if it looks like my '-stable, -release and -current's look like i'm yelling -- copied them off the fbsd ftp site.


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