Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
Vulpes Velox
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Wed Mar 10 00:40:31 PST 2004
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500
"Crucial Servers" <admin at crucialservers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble
> machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to
> install a secure version of "curl" this is our main focus right
> now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing
> works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it,
> but now it cant find m3build.
>
> My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and
> "Yes" its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is
> going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done.
> Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I
> was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9.
>
> If I can avoid this all together and install a secured version
> of "curl" it would be appreaciated. I really cant find the
> source anywhere.
No clue what it would take to cvsup that... but what I would do is
throw together a 4stable install together on another similar box and
take care of all the tweakings, data importing, and ect. Then when
that machines scheduled downtime/maintance/whatever arrivces swap out
either the drive or the entire machine.
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