On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote:Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process on a "regular
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.
basis, completely unattended."? Details not necessary at this time, just very curious.
Thanks, Bob Perry
HTH
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