updating 4.8->4.9 did it take?

Ronny Hippler r11roadster at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 14 07:20:22 PST 2003


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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:07:56 -0700 (MST), Technical Director wrote:

>For all of us text based mail client users, please try to wrap at a single
>screen width.

fixed, thought it was. Now if we could do something about all the top
posting...

>Just so we get this right, you cvsup'd 4.9-RELEASE and then ran
>/stand/sysinstall?

yes 

>If you are cvsup'ing 4.9-RELEASE sources to your computer you need to
>follow the directions that go along with this means of upgrading. You can
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- ....

I did all that and still had 4.8 that is why I went the sysinstall
route. obviously I am doing something wrong when I cvsup it as it is
grabbing the 4.8 sources and not 4.9 same with sysinstall via ftp.


>If you really like sysinstall and want to use that, I believe your best
>bet is to create installation meda, floppies or a CD-ROM, and reboot it
>with these. Selecting UPGRADE is probably a good bet for you.

Yea this was my next course of action I was just wondering what I was
doing wrong that the other two methods didn't work.
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