From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 8: 4:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.deadbbs.com (hermes.cpetc.com [207.137.157.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE3D37BA28 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kahn@deadbbs.com) Received: from erin-laptop (mongo.sdccd.cc.ca.us [209.129.16.5]) by hermes.deadbbs.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e5SF4Rk06463; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erin" To: , "'Kent Stewart'" Cc: Subject: RE: Upgrading from 2.2.8-R to 4.0 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:03:56 -0700 Message-ID: <000e01bfe112$15488b80$e815820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20000627205316.G424@dialin-client.earthlink.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. I guess I left out a few details here... Sorry.. I am building 4.0 on a different machine and am going to move the HDD's into the 2.2.8 server. As long as the master.passwd, group files are good to go, I should have no problem. Then all I would need to do is move over /usr/home and I could be off and running. If I have problems with this setup, I'll send an email to the list saying so. > > > 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. I will look into it. Thanks for your help. Erin mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http://www.deadbbs.com http://www.fortenberry.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message