From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 08:07:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [206.251.17.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29471 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from borogove.yahoo.com (borogove.yahoo.com [205.216.162.65]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02573 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yahoo-inc.com (brad.yahoo.com [204.71.202.45]) by borogove.yahoo.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29448 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35B75198.AD0EC9BB@yahoo-inc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:07:04 -0700 From: Brad Clawsie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: upgrade problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7, and had a rather bad experience. I'm sure it was because of a stupid oversight or gross error on my part, but I can't figure out which exactly. To do the upgrade, I ran /stand/sysinstall as root and went to the "upgrade" option on the front page. I assumed that this would do a rather painless upgrade for me, as the other tools in the sysinstall program work very well for a simple-mindedapproach to maintenance. Before I even go on, was I completely off my rocker using this utility for an OS upgrade? As it stands, I walked away for a while and when I came back the utility told me it had ran out of swap space after it began to "pound on my root" or something. I've done a clean install of 2.2.7 since, but I would just like to know in future upgrades what is the correct way to go. People at work have mentioned the CVSup-way, but frankly I'm a little intimidated by it. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. I'm not much of a kernel-hacker, so if you could keep the advice pretty high-level I would appreciate it. P.S. On another note, all of the documentation I read (online, in my 2.2.6 cdrom) indicated quite strongly that an mishandled OS upgrade could result in me losing my system. Was this a subtle hint? Is the upgrade procedure still not really polished? I haven't seen warnings as stern elsewhere. Thanks, and thanks for a great OS. Brad -- Brad Clawsie brad@yahoo-inc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message