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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUP "stable"
Date: 4 Sep 1995 15:49:20 +0200
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Marc Giannoni <marc@raven.eng.comsat.com> wrote:
> What is the suggested bootstrapping procedure here. I am currently running
> FreeBSD-2.0 from Walnut Creek CD-Rom. I believe that FreeBSD-stable is
> actually FreeBSD-2.1.
>
> Am I doing something really stupid? -OR- Is there a much easier way to
> accomplish what I am trying to do (Upgrade!)?
Without any kinds of warranties, ``cd /usr/src; make world'' is the
suggested way. You have to update your /etc/ files manually however.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)