On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, MANI wrote:
> Currently I am using 4.2 stable and I am willing to upgrade to -current
> because of some new features which i need.
> According to faq (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld) I should first
> upgrade to closest binary, which means upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and then to
> 4.4 ( Latest snapshot ) and finally Fetch & build *-current.
>
> Above process as you know will be a highly time consuming process and I
> prefer stick to my current 4.2 rather than going through that. why not just
> Fetch & build -cuurent directly? what is your recommended approach for
> upgrading to -cuurent ?
>
A far better approach would be to backup the current machine, do a fresh
install of 4.5 [from the CDs you pre-ordered], and then restore any needed
files. Moving from 4.5 to -current should be much simpler.
Lee
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Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation
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