how to update freebsd 5.4 to 6.1 via no Internet and CD or DVD media

[Nick Withers]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:52:22 +0800
nectar76 <nectar020 at 163.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, I have a USB WLAN Adapter, and have no idea to work on FreeBSD 5.4,  
> but there is a driver called p54u (http://prism54.org/newdrivers.html)can  
> try, but it is recommend to work on FreeBSD 6.
> 
> I done:
> 1. download freebsd 6.1 iso and unzip files, want to update system at  
> local, but failed;

Did you try the binary upgrade option (I can't recall
exactly what it's called in the sysinstall root menu, if not
"Binary upgrade")?

> 2. used  TortoiseCVS(CVS software for Windows) to download src/ from  
> Anonymous CVS, copied them to /usr/src on freebsd-5.4, want to 'make  
> buildworld', but failed; 'make' looks not work as usual;

I'd hazard a guess that the files have been transferred with
carriage return newlines (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRLF).

I imagine that you could install the sources from a 6.1-RELEASE
CD onto your 5.4-RELEASE system... Have you tried this?
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