Heads up: End of RELENG_4_8 support

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Sun Mar 6 08:30:04 GMT 2005


Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:43 -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
>>  It is recommended that all FreeBSD 4.8 users upgrade their systems to
>>FreeBSD 4.11 before the end of the month.  FreeBSD 4.11 has also been
>>designated for extended support, and will be supported until at least
>>the end of January 2007.
> 
> Is it possible to use freebsd-update to update my 4.8-SECURITY system to
> your 4.11 build?

No.  However, you can download the 4.11-RELEASE iso image, mount it on
/cdrom, and use that to install 4.11.

Colin Percival


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