Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!

[Bob Perry]

Eric F Crist wrote:

>On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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
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>Richard,
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>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.
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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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