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FreeBSD System upgrades Upgrades

  Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998
How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998
The installation 11 Jun 1998
upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998
Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998
Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999
Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999
Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999
Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999
Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999
Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999
User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999
System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999
FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000
BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000
USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000
Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000
FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000
Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000
New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000
FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000
FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005
PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007

  upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999
mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999
/etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999
Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999
Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999
Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999
Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999
Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999
Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999
What is installed? 6 Jun 1999
Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999
how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999
Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999
proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999
unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000
Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000
Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005

  upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999
Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999
Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999
Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999
Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999
Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999
Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000
installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release 6 May 2000
FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000
The make-world script 30 Jul 2000
Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000
4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine 2 Aug 2000
How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000
Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001
cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001
ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005
mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009
ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010