RE: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-11-01 Thread SiteRollout.com
Many thanks for all the replies guys. I used the following method pasted below remotely without having to boot up in single user mode and it worked fine to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1/6.2, so I'm sharing with all in case anyone needs to do the same. However I want to downgrade from 6.2 PRERELEASE to

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-11-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 12:53, SiteRollout.com wrote: Many thanks for all the replies guys. I used the following method pasted below remotely without having to boot up in single user mode and it worked fine to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1/6.2, so I'm sharing with all in case anyone needs to

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Joe Holden
SiteRollout.com wrote: I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the list! Welcome! I'm coming to FreeBSD from a Linux background, so whilst some things are pretty similar, some things are pretty different. Excellent! 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Philipp Ost
SiteRollout.com wrote: Two questions to kickstart my participation on this list: 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running the STABLE or CURRENT release, as when I run uname I can only see the following relevant info: FreeBSD server4.domain.info 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sat

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Ivan Voras
SiteRollout.com wrote: 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running the STABLE or CURRENT release, as when I run uname I can only see the following relevant info: FreeBSD server4.domain.info 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Sep 23 13:52:48 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:32:43PM +0100, SiteRollout.com wrote: I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the list! Welcome! snip And which file do I change to use a different release, and how must I update the system to pull in this latest release? 2.) I'm a