From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 6:47:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464B914F47 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 06:47:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA68132; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:47:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:47:38 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Alex Crouzen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First FreeBSD job; questions In-Reply-To: <199912301321.OAA18533@mailer.multec.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alex Crouzen wrote: > Secondly, and that is why I write to this list, I have to update the=20 > system to the newest stable release. What I need is some pointers=20 > what I need to watch when I want to update this system. Are there=20 > any known pits I could avoid? There seems to be no easy way to answer your question in general since the answer depends on the current configuration of your system. And, do you want to upgrade by compiling the FreeBSD-stable sources or by installing 3.4-RELEASE from whatever media available? And what's the disk layout of your system? Are user files separated from system files by using different filesystems? What are your possibilities to backup user files to tape or a different disk? The safest way to update - to my mind - would be to put a new disk into your system for the installation while keeping the running system without modification on the old disk. If not possible, save all user data and the important and modified config files (mostly in /etc) on any media available. Since the release step is relatively large from 2.2.5 to 3.4, I'd prefer a complete new installation from the scratch. Of course, if the user files on your system are located within a dedicated file system, don't wipe it out, just mount it again! ;-) Good luck Konrad // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message