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1) Go to the website http:\\www.freebsd.org and read about cvsup.
2) Download the cvsup package and install it.
3) Get the -stable supfile.  Put it in your home dir.
4) If you have an old set of CD's, install the system source code.  
   This is not necassary, but it will make your upgrade/download
   go a lot quicker since you will already have most of the
   source code installed and only require some upgrades(deltas) instead
of the
   whole enchalada(multiple checkouts).
   When you are done you should have /usr/src dir that looks like this.

COPYRIGHT               contrib                 lkm
CVS                     crypto                  release
Makefile                etc                     sbin
Makefile.inc0           games                   secure
Makefile.inc1           gnu                     share
Makefile.upgrade        include                 sys
README                  kerberosIV              tools
UPDATING                lib                     usr.bin
bin                     libexec                 usr.sbin

5) Run cvsup as root:

    $ cvsup -L2 -g ~JOE_USER_HOME_DIR/stable-supfile

6)  Stand back....  Your computer is going to excercise just about every
muscle.

6) When finished, follow instructions at site on making a new world,
   kernel and merging /etc.  <--- mergemaster port is best for /etc.

NOTE:  This looks like alot and, for the first time newbie to cvsup,
       it is.  But, once you get it setup and running its a few
keystrokes
       everytime there after.

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