From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 7:46:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B5514DFC for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (solaris.puebla.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA91849; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:45:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <00ee01bf2d24$bfd149e0$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" , "Mark Stosberg" Cc: References: Subject: RE: Any pointers for crossing the line from 2.2.8 to 3.3? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:44:04 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You should take a look at this page: http://freebsd.simplenet.com/make-upgrade.html Have Fun... Ales From: Jonathon McKitrick > You'll of course need to go through /etc and compare and update any > changes. This is something i have seen mentioned many times. Some people > do it manually, others use mergemaster. > > > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > > > >This weekend we are upgrading our FreeBSD server for our hosting firm > >from 2.2.8 to 3.3 and looking for the most painless way to do this. I've > >assembled some basic notes on the procedure based some documention I > >found on the net (my notes are below). Are they any other pointers I > >should know about? Thanks. > > > >key upgrade stuff: > > > > 1. Back everything up. > > 2. Repeat step 1. > > 3. Copy new source tree from CD into /usr/src/sys > > 3.5 make kernel tweaks as needed > > 4. "make upgrade". > > 5. reboot. > > 6. use /stand/sysinstall to install compat22 > > > >Is that guts of it? If you have tips or pointers to a reference on this, > >that would be appreciated. > >Thanks much, > > > > -mark > > > > <<-------------------------------------------------------------->> > >personal website < Summersault Website Design > > http://mark.stosberg.com/ > http://www.summersault.com/ > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -jonathon > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message