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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!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 2.1.0 to 2.1.7 - how to? Date: 2 Mar 1997 10:30:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5fbkre$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5elbnc$l89@shellx.best.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:36415 dhawk@best.com (David Hawkins) wrote: > Got a headache and not feeling too bright today, so thought I'd ask: > how do I upgrade a 2.1.0 box that's on the Internet to 2.1.7? > Do I just replace the kernel or do I need to do all of usr.bin as > well? You gotta replace all of them. It's probably the simplest way to just use the upgrade option of sysinstall -- but make sure you've got proper backups in place, in particular of your /etc directory. -- 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. ;-)