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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: question about 386BSD to FreeBSD upgrade Date: 28 Oct 1993 00:14:56 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2an2u0$4ak@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Oct27.231725.13173@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Oct27.231725.13173@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, Todd Pfaff <todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca> wrote: >I've just upgraded from 386BSD to FreeBSD EPSILON. I did a binary >upgrade and then installed the source distribution. Is there any reason >I need to build the entire source distribution at this point, or is the >binary distribution complete? I don't mind doing the build, I just want >to know if it's a waste of time. Only if you want to burn CPU cycles. I would however, recommend building a local kernel which only contains those devices which are on your hardware though. >Are there any recommended patches for FreeBSD EPSILON archived anywhere? There will be a set of upgrade patches to go from EPSILON to the 1.0 release whenever the 1.0 release is done. (EPSILON isn't *that* old :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me