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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!news.kth.se!damned.nada.kth.se!d88-jwn 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 Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qjj1g$cg3@news.kth.se> References: <2qji0m$lrm@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: damned.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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