From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 14: 1: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873CE37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu (smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4DE243E4A for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: (qmail 23742 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2002 21:01:00 -0000 Received: from ubppp234-142.dialin.buffalo.edu (HELO selvirjin.buffalo.edu) (128.205.234.142) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 21:01:00 -0000 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.buffalo.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17jnRp-00011c-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:00:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:00:25 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: "Ernest H. Rice" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading... Message-ID: <20020827170025.A3712@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> References: <200208271426.g7REQnT56905@ehr3.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208271426.g7REQnT56905@ehr3.net>; from ehr3@ehr3.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:26:49AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:26:49AM -0400, Ernest H. Rice wrote: > Hello... > > Here is my uname output... > > FreeBSD fred.ehr3.net 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Thu May 23 > 16:59:31 EDT 2002 ehr3@fred.ehr3.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > I want to keep current on the STABLE RELEASE path, but also do not want > to disturb the files I have in user's directories, etc. > > Custom configuration is also a concern... > > Will I be able to upgrade the OS without having to reconfigure/lose > data? > > Is it intuitive how to do this? > > What version would you recommend? > > Thanks in advance for acommodating this basic question... > > Ernie Rice > First: there are two branches, -STABLE (RELENG_4) and -RELEASE (RELENG_4_6). Read the sections of the Handbook on compiling your own kernel (Chapter 9) and using CVSup (Appendix A). The Handbook is at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Configuration is saved; the 'mergemaster' command exists to help you merge in new changes. (It is generally a bad idea to let it touch your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group files, though.) Read the mergemaster(8) man page thoroughly before attempting to use it. And just in case it all explodes in a ball of flaming death, back up your data first. I'm going to leave the "which version" question up to others. -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message