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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!newsmaster From: Robbert Hofman <rob@pell.anu.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Any suggestions on upgrade 2.0R -> 2.0.5R Date: 11 Jun 1995 09:50:20 GMT Organization: ANU Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3ree8s$15@manuel.anu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.148.157 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Hi, Does anyone have any suggestions on an upgrade path from 2.0R to 2.0.5R. Since I have put a large amount of effort into setting up my system, I don't really feal like starting from scratch again, especially since I only went from 1.1.1.5 to 2.0R about 90 days ago. Taking into account how difficult it is to write an upgrade script/program, I have seen Sun's version do really strange things at times, I assume that there isn't one on the cdrom or elsewhere. Can I just install the srcdist and the source from the extras like secrdist, compat2, etc. and just do a "make World"? Or am I stuck with doing a complete reload? Any ideas? Regards, Rob. PS. Many thanks to the FreeBSD team for a great OS and saving me from jail as I would have had to steal a Sun from work because I can't stand Dos.