Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:31:06 +0500 (ES) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any pointers for crossing the line from 2.2.8 to 3.3? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911122329170.264-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <382AEE4C.9341EEC0@summersault.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- the best is to try that upgrade on a test machine, you can do it as many times as you want. we did "make world" from 2.2.5 -> 3.3 tens times ... tomorrow we are going to upgrade our university mail server (wish me luck !) Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOCxc7ORxlWKN2EXhAQEpOAL/UvQq3tEVSA2ZJNXQsvxEtcHRvHTpKy8W i2wHIDc9P9nGZy7j3QT7wz2BypYoheANCp/ZAWd3lWsOAjyZog1+cVe9Gs+fMxRT oX6pHkTXB0qnnFUhmCP1nK0fRPbzjkG2 =B/cw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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