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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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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
>   
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