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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Where the FreeBSD upgrade scripts are [was Re: where's patch-kit for 0.2.4?]
Message-ID: <29cbb0$oll@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 11 Oct 1993 19:14:40 GMT
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In article <JKH.93Oct9231224@whisker.lotus.ie>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.lotus.ie> wrote:
>>Does anyone know where these scripts can be found?
>
>freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.0-EPSILON/tools/upgrade
>
>Hmmmm.  That's actually sort of burieed!  We ought to at least point
>at it from the top level someplace.

Yeah, but most everything is buried on that site. :-(

>
>>What patchlevel do you have to be at for the scripts to work?
>
>0.2.4 or none.  I believe the script figures this out.

Actually, ANY version of 386BSD will work.  The only kicker is that you really
want to be running a FreeBSD kernel for stability sake, ESPECIALLY if you're
running a stock 386bsd system.


Nate

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