upgrading

eoghan freebsd at redry.net
Wed Sep 28 13:51:56 PDT 2005


On 28 Sep 2005, at 21:46, Beecher Rintoul wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:28 pm, eoghan wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> Im going to do a fresh install of 5.3 over the weekend, then id like
>> to upgrade to 5.4. My reasons for upgrading are: ill have to do it
>> some time or another and I cant always rely on having my trusty dvd
>> with me. So, the question is: what is the best way to do an upgrade?
>> I figure ill do the install, make sure its all ok, and before I go
>> ahead and install anything ill upgrade. I did hear people say that
>> using the sysinstall isnt the way to go - maybe or maybe not? So any
>> opinions here on how it should be done would be appreciated.
>>
>
> To save yourself some time, just boot from your disk change the tag  
> in the
> options screen to 5.4-RELEASE and do a net install. No need to  
> start from
> 5.3.
>
> Beech

Thanks for your advice. and thank you Derrick. I will read into those  
articles. Mike, the main reason is just so I can learn how to do it.  
Im using freebsd on my other computer only to learn it.
Thanks all
Eoghan





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