From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 13: 8:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CDB37B722 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2LL4fX72033; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:04:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "bryden" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdCbD4IN; Thu Mar 22 07:04:30 2001 Message-ID: <048501c0b24a$7372c7c0$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" , "Bill Schoolcraft" Cc: "Eric Colburn" , References: Subject: Re: 4.3 FreeBSD Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:03:57 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I wanted to clarify whether you "re-install" with the new release on > > CD or "up-grade" with the new release on CD. > Upgrading will leave your configuration-files and your applications > untouched, reinstalling would destroy your configs and leave your apps > alive. > Only when you really format or change your partitions-layout everything > will be redone. > I only tried one "upgrade" & that did mess the system up totally. Mind you I didn't read up on the ins & outs so possibly it will work with a bit of effort. However I've done so many fresh installs ... got into the habit with Windows :) .....that I could probably do them in my sleep, and with a relatively basic setup its not a major undertaking anyway. > > > > If you "upgrade" what packages do you "choose" to install from the > > newer CD to the older release ? The only time I tried an "upgrade" I didn't get that far .... it crashed before that.. > > I'll be building a 4.3 system as soon as I can get a 4.3 RELEASE ISO and I'll try an upgrade from 4.1 ..... will also run CVSUP on that & try a buildworld etc. Judging from the postings from people having problems that appear attributable to CVSUP though it does look like a recipe for trouble. Anyway (as we say in OZ) I'll "have a go ya mug" & if it proves to be Trouble I'll revert to the "install a RELEASE version & leave it alone til the next one" approach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message