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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading Date: 18 Jun 1997 19:34:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5o9d7j$mol@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <EBw6oA.J1C@nonexistent.com> <5o4p68$5de$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <EBxFCu.Gv6@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43159 Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote: > Make world? That sucks I just spend $40 on this CD ... now I have to > download everything and remake it? You don't have, but you've been asking for how to upgrade. Nobody tells you need to. Note that unlike Linux, FreeBSD is a complete system, not just a kernel. Part of the 2.2.2 fixes are also located in userland, so in order to completely upgrade, you would have to upgrade these, too. I'm not too confident with the total list of changes, it might be possible that you can just upgrade the kernel only if you see a need for this step, e.g. like you've got problems with an AHA2940 and think they have been fixed later. If you know which files are affected (which you can gather from the CVS logs which are accessible to the public, e.g. on the WWW frontend), you can even upgrade just these files, and rebuild your kernel. Btw., the ports and packages on the CD take far more space than the base operating system itself. They are (nearly?) identical between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, thus it's really not a waste of money to have the CD-ROM around, even in case you decide to upgrade the base system from the net. Again, all depends on what you want. My previous employer still runs a corporate server with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, and doesn't have the slightest need for an upgrade. 2.2.2 hasn't been released since there was some urging need to do it, but only since Jordan was about to prepare a release for the intended CDE/FreeBSD CD-ROM, so he figured he could provide a minor release of the non-CDE stuff as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)