Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:53:16 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Erin - Lists <ef-lists@deadbbs.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.2.8-R to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000627205316.G424@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <395926A6.3F7208FD@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:11:50PM -0700 References: <005301bfe05d$40a070a0$e815820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us> <395926A6.3F7208FD@3-cities.com>
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:11:50PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Erin - Lists wrote: > > > > I was thinking of trying to upgrade from 2.2.8 to 4.0. > > Make a good backup because I think if you search the archive, you will > find this doesn't work. You couldn't, at one point, even upgrade from > 2.2.8 to 3.4 in one step. You had to stop at 3.2 because of the a.out > and elf problems and then upgrade to 3.4. The odds of making it to 4.0 > in one step are probably pretty small. I had problems trying to cvsup > and source upgrade from 3.4 to 4.0 and ended up doing a clean install. > The UPDATING message, in hindsight, now makes sense and someone else > that had the same problems I did made it after a small conference. Going from 2.2.8 to 4.0 is not a big problem if you do a binary upgrade. As has been recently discussed on another FreeBSD list, use sysinstall to install the minimal binary distribution of 4.0-RELEASE. Then do a make world for the 4.x-STABLE source. Be sure to add the COMPAT22 option in make.conf. > > My only consearn is if the passwords in the master.passwd > > would need to be redone or if they are compatible. Is > > there a seed file for the encryption I would need to move > > over? There will be no password issues. There _will_ be wtmp issues, however. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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