From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 13:41:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17263 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:41:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17249 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:41:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (seabass.progroup.com [206.24.122.1]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04746; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:40:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3308D037.41C67EA6@ProGroup.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:40:07 -0800 From: Craig Shaver Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Newton CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update 2.1.0 to 2.1.6 References: <3308997B.5794@datapark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeff Newton wrote: > > FreeBSD Gurus, > > I'm a little nervous about an updating the kernel on my 2.1.0 system. > I've read the various questions/answers in the archive but is backing up > /etc the only thing I need to do before taking on this task? > > Its a production system running DNS and mail for my entire network so > its crucial that I don't lose anything of value. Can someone more > experienced with this tell me what if anything I'll lose during the > upgrade? > > Any advice? I'd like to make this as painless as possible so any help > would be GREATLY appreciated! > > Cheers, > > -- > Jeff Newton I will be upgrading a 2.1.5 -> 2.1.7 as soon as it hits. I have another box that I will do the upgrade on first to check it out. After I have successfully gone through the process, then I will do the upgrade on my server. In my case I have some driver issues to resolve, but for most the procedure is to back up /etc and then go for it. Then edit the files in /etc to set up all the DNS, mail, etc. Supposed to be easy, but I have never tried it, and I have the same concerns as you. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088