From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 17:18:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA18849 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA18839 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA04525; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:18:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Eric Anderson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 -> 2.2.5 upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Eric Anderson wrote: > > Ok, I'm somewhat of a FreeBSD newbie (mostly Solaris) so forgive the > ineptness but I'm planning on doing a network upgrade of all OSs from > some SNAP 3.0's, but mostly 2.2.2's to 2.2.5 - is it simply as easy as > moving the current /usr/src/sys out of the way, and inserting the new > 2.2.5 sys and recompiling (while having made the appropriate changes in > the kernel config file)? You want to upgrade the binaries too. Make it a complete affair. Just boot the 2.2.5 boot floppy, select upgrade, and follow the prompts. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES UPGRADE ANY MACHINE ON ANY 3.0-SNAPS. YOU WILL BREAK THEM IF YOU DO. The mount() system call semantics were changed and if you downgrade them to 2.2.x you won't be able to mount your disks except from the appropriate fixit floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major