From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 12 11:56:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from donna.risc.lv (donna.risc.lv [159.148.12.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB5A14FE4 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vic@rezekne.lv) Received: from rezekne.lv (vic.risc.lv [159.148.12.22]) by donna.risc.lv (8.9.3/X.Y.Z) with ESMTP id VAA02021; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:56:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vic@rezekne.lv) Message-ID: <387CDC9D.6CE5B589@rezekne.lv> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:57:17 +0200 From: Victor Meirans Organization: Rezekne Internet Service Center (http://www.risc.lv) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,zh-CN,zh-TW,zh,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Harris Cc: FreeBSD ISP mailing list Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.2 -> 3.4 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello again... Well... Never did upgrade from source. I was planning to do the binary upgrade from downoaded CD image. As I understood you do not recommend this. Can you tell something more adout those binary upgrade problems you've heard about?? Thanks again.. :) In advance. :) Gene Harris wrote: > > I did a simple upgrade using source code only. I grabbed > one of the late December source code images from > releng3.freebsd.org. I compiled a new kernel first, then > did a make buildworld && make installworld. Then I merged > any changes in /etc/default/rc.conf with the version in the > source image. I also search for any new files to for > inclusion in etc. I held my breath and rebooted. > > Took about 2 hours, never missed a beat. My ppp came up no > problem, postgre and apache all startup up with no problem. > > I have heard of a lot of problems when trying to upgrade > from binaries. > > Gene Harris -- ---> ViC <--- --==> Rezekne Internet Service Center http://www.risc.lv "PCT Latgale" Ltd. Phone: +371-4622972 Baznicas 17, Rezekne, Fax: +371-4622972 LV-4601, Latvia GSM: +371-9577569 -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message