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From: d88-jwn@damned.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA -> 1.1-RELEASE ???
Date: 8 May 1994 20:45:36 GMT
Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology
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Dan Hickman (hickman@prism.tamu.edu) wrote:
: 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??

Well at least don't use the dynamically linked tar in your present
installation. The untaring will come to a grinding halt when
extracting the shared lib.. I know - I've done it 8/.

/Johan