upgrading using sysinstall

kitsune kitbsdlists at HotPOP.com
Sun Apr 6 11:46:57 PDT 2003


Is it possible of of just upgrading kernels and the core stuff and using compat4x with make world?

>From what I have read about make world it recompiles all the installed packages, or atleast I go the impression of that.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:13:05 -0400
"E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo at laposte.net> wrote:

> I believe you have to boot from the newly created boot disks from the 
> new version of FreeBSD. I would recomment make world.
> 
> kitsune wrote:
> > When upgrading from sysinstall, do I have to boot from floppy or CD, or can I boot from hhd normally and just do it as root?
> > 
> > I tried the last one nothing got installed, but it ran ok.



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