Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!
Bob Perry
rperry4 at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 12 19:33:27 PST 2004
Eric F Crist wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process
on a "regular
basis, completely unattended."? Details not necessary at this time,
just very curious.
Thanks,
Bob Perry
>HTH
>
>
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