Need some help =(

[Bob Hall]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:47:36PM -0500, Joey Mingrone wrote:
> >Hi! I am pretty new to FreeBSD, however, I do really enjoy useing it, its 
> >a GREAT server platform.
> It makes a pretty darn good desktop too.  :-)
> 
> Anyway, on to my question.  I for the life of me can't figure out how to 
> update my system.  Everything I read REALLY confuses me.  I was hopeing it 
> would be something as simple as emerge world or system like in Gentoo 
> Linux. Anyway, If you could give me a step by step newbie install guide, 
>  that would help VERY much!  Thanks
> >
> >
> >-Eric
> 
> Have you read 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html 
> ?  It's pretty close to a step-by-step guide to updating your system.  It's 
> only a few pages long and quite well written.

In addition, FreeBSD Unleashed and Annalise Anderson's FBSD book both 
contain good step-by-step guides. I prefer Anderson's instructions to 
the other two, but only by a very small margin. I wouldn't hesitate to 
use either the handbook or FreeBSD Unleashed. 

Bob Hall