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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA -> 1.1-RELEASE ???
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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 07:41:55 GMT
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In <2qji0m$lrm@news.tamu.edu> hickman@prism.tamu.edu (Dan Hickman) writes:
>I am currently running FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA and would like to upgrade
>to 1.1-RELEASE but I am a little unsure of how to do this. I
>see that there is now a patch but this seems to be for the
>source and not the binaries. I would rather not recompile
>the whole source! How can I upgrade the binaries?? Would
>this be done by simply downloading them and extracting them
>on top of the GAMMA binaries? It seems like this might erase
>some of my configuration files in /etc, or are they included
>in the binaries??
Just hang in tight there :- a binary patch for upgrading from
1.1-GAMMA to 1.1-RELEASE will be released shortly. Rod Grimes is
presently working on that one.
Geoff.
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