From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 9:45:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BAC637B69C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:44:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 64048 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2001 17:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitaldaemon.com) (192.168.0.73) by jak.org with SMTP; 10 Jan 2001 17:42:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3A5C9F4B.4070002@digitaldaemon.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:43:39 -0500 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 3.2 -> 4.x easy? References: <3.0.5.32.20010110172511.00812640@199.107.2.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I you have a server running FreeBSD 3.2 I would check into cvsup'ing you system. Read /usr/src/UPDATING though, before you run a make world, etc. Jan Mike Doyle wrote: > I have a server running FreeBSD 3.2 > I would like to upgrade to 4.1 or 4.2 (I have the CD set for > 4.1 at hand) > > Will using the /stand/sysinstall upgrade be fairly > painless or should I plan to nuke the whole thing and start again? > > The shorter the "downtime" required the better. > > Any advice on such an upgrade would be much appreciated. Last time I > migrated (2.2.5 -> 3.2) it was at the same time as I installed new > server hardware so I simply installed the new OS in the new PC and re-created > the user accounts. > > The server is primarily an intranet web/email server. :-) > > <>< ============================================================ ><> > Michael Doyle email: relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie > Network Administrator personal email: relyod@indigo.ie > Co-operation Ireland http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/ > Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456 > > ********************************************************************* > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message