Quickie question

[Allen]

On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:33:51 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Allen <GedankeZauberer at comcast.net> writes:
> > Thanks for letting me know about that. I didn't know. I heard the other
> > day on here that 7.1 had a longer life cycle than 7.2 so I hadn't
> > upgraded as I planned on waiting for 8.0, but I guess it's time to just
> > go ahead and upgrade.
>
> # frebesd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade
>
> After upgrading, download the ports tree:
>
> # portsnap fetch install
> # portupgrade -a
>
> In a month or so, do it again with 8.0-RELEASE, and run
>
> # portsnap fetch update
> # portupgrade -af
>
> This will rebuild *all* your ports, not just those that are out-of-date.
> Strongly recommended when upgrading to a new major release.

Ahh thankls, I knew there was a way to upgrade everything without actually 
grabbing the CDs. I grabbed the ISO images for 7.2 just in case a few weeks 
ago, but I kinda like the upgrading over the net thing, and I haven't ever 
done that before, I think I'll try that.

> BTW, this belongs on -questions, not on -chat.

I know, that's why I was saying thank you for allowing me to ask this here 
since at the moment, and still, my normal email account, and all the lists, 
are not usable yet (The machine is building itself from sources, can't get to 
the mail) did a quickie kmail configure on another machine, but I don't have 
all my lists and filters and anything else, and only this list is actually 
coming in. FreeBSD-Questions isn't showing up right now, not sure why but 
I'll check that later on, got a busy day today. Thanks again!

> DES

-Allen