On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:33:51 am Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> writes:
> > Thanks for letting me know about that. I didn't know. I heard the other
> > day on here that 7.1 had a longer life cycle than 7.2 so I hadn't
> > upgraded as I planned on waiting for 8.0, but I guess it's time to just
> > go ahead and upgrade.
>
> # frebesd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade
>
> After upgrading, download the ports tree:
>
> # portsnap fetch install
> # portupgrade -a
>
> In a month or so, do it again with 8.0-RELEASE, and run
>
> # portsnap fetch update
> # portupgrade -af
>
> This will rebuild *all* your ports, not just those that are out-of-date.
> Strongly recommended when upgrading to a new major release.
Ahh thankls, I knew there was a way to upgrade everything without actually=
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grabbing the CDs. I grabbed the ISO images for 7.2 just in case a few weeks=
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ago, but I kinda like the upgrading over the net thing, and I haven't ever=
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done that before, I think I'll try that.
> BTW, this belongs on -questions, not on -chat.
I know, that's why I was saying thank you for allowing me to ask this here=
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since at the moment, and still, my normal email account, and all the lists,=
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are not usable yet (The machine is building itself from sources, can't get =
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the mail) did a quickie kmail configure on another machine, but I don't hav=
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all my lists and filters and anything else, and only this list is actually=
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coming in. FreeBSD-Questions isn't showing up right now, not sure why but=20
I'll check that later on, got a busy day today. Thanks again!
> DES
=2DAllen
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