From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 6 00:23:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA29824 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA29817 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA07851; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:22:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Ryan cc: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.1.0 to 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Michael Ryan wrote: > Forgive me if this is a stupid question, as I haven't been > following the group recently. > > I have a production system running 2.1.0R and I'll be > moving to 2.2.2 next week. Is there an upgrade option > which -works- or should I do a fresh install and restore > locally modified config files from tape? The `upgrade' option on the boot floppy for the new version has worked fine for me. For safety, back up anything important (obviously). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo