From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 2:33:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E302014DFA for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Andreas.Rozek@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.De) Received: from ksat24 (ksat24.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.13.219]) by artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10213; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:32:21 +0200 (MET DST) env-from (Andreas.Rozek@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.De) From: "Andreas Rozek" To: , "Christopher Michaels" Cc: "Andreas Rozek" , "Tassilo Erlewein" Subject: AW: Upgrading the kernel from 2.2.x to 3.2 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:35:43 +0200 Message-ID: <006901beb324$9c433f80$db0d4581@ksat24.RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.De> 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: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105975@site2s1> Importance: Normal X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher, > There are several ways you could do this. > 1. CVSUP the source code and do a 'make upgrade' (there is > more to it than > that). > 2. Create the boot floppies and do a binary upgrade. > 3. Backup your date, wipe the system clean, install from scratch. thanks for the quick reply. From what I read in several notes, a bi- nary upgrade using "sysinstall" sounds most interesting. Unfortu- nately, I could not find any information on how to upgrade a system using "sysinstall" on the web. Do you have any hints for me? Thanks in advance for your effort! Andreas Rozek Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart ****** ** ** ***** Kommunikationssysteme/BelWue-Entwicklung ** ** ** ** ** Allmandring 3a ** ** ** ** ** D-70550 Stuttgart ****** ** ** ***** *** ** ** ** Telefon: ++49 (711) 685-4514 ** ** ** ** ** Telefax: ++49 (711) 678-8363 ** ** ***** ****** E-Mail: Andreas.Rozek@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.De To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message