From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 28 11:03:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22740 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:03:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22735 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id NAA07195; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:02:31 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199512281902.NAA07195@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade to 2.1R ? To: team_fbf@pristine.com.tw (ywliu) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:02:31 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512281638.QAA28326@neptune.pristine.com.tw> from "ywliu" at Dec 28, 95 04:38:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > Our company , an ISP, uses FreeBSD 2.05R for all servers. Now we decided > to move up to 2.1R for a more stable environment. After experimenting with > the upgrade option in the 2.1R installation, it ruins my old 2.05R > settings at my home. Now I want to know if there is anybody who > has successfully upgraded from 2.05R to 2.1R manually. I plan to > do this manually and hope you can help. > > Yen-Wei Liu Closest I have come was taking the 2.0.5R root drive and replacing it with a 2.1.almostR root drive on my news server, and then copying over relevant files. Fortunately my tendency not to make gratuitous changes (but to make specific changes on ALL machines I install) makes it not all that hard, and all the applications I needed were over in /usr/local. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847