From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 12 02:32:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA09128 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 02:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09116 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 02:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02521; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:26:45 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26148; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:31:37 GMT Message-ID: <19980212103135.39573@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:31:36 +0000 To: andyp@cableinet.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading freeBSD References: <34E18062.7A8E@cableinet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <34E18062.7A8E@cableinet.co.uk>; from Andy Pendry on Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 10:41:38AM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 10:41:38AM +0000, Andy Pendry wrote: > What is the correct procedure for upgrading to the latest version of > freeBSD? Depends. You could download the latest boot floppy and booting from that. One of the menu options is 'Upgrade' to upgrade the version of FreeBSD on your system. Alternatively, if this is something you're planning on doing regularly, if you're staying up with -current or -stable for example, then you should read the handbook section "Staying 'x' with FreeBSD" (where 'x' is either 'stable' or 'current') which will explain how to download the source code you need to your computer. Then read http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html which explains what to do with those sources once you've got them. > How can I best evaluate the benefits of upgrading? Depends why you're upgrading. If you want to improve performance then you should work out how to quantify your current performance, and where possible bottlenecks are. Once you've done this, a post to appropriate mailing list (which is almost certainly -questions) outlining the performance you're seeing and the version of FreeBSD you're using would be good. Then ask if anyone knows if the changes and improvements in the latest version will affect the performance you're seeing. Keep in mind that you don't need to upgrade if the system is already keeping up with the load you're putting on it. I know of a couple of sites which run FreeBSD 2.0 for various things. The admins keep up with the latest security advisories and make sure that the holes are fixed, but apart from that they don't need to move to a new release of the OS. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- . . . and relax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message