From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 17 17:24:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361F714C57 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02646; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 20:24:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907180024.UAA02646@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "erez@doar.enetworks.com" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 20:25:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Downgrading FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:21:16 -0700, erez@doar.enetworks.com wrote: >I am in a need of downgrading our FreeBSD 3.0 version to 2.2X. Any help on >"how to do" is greatly appreciated. >Also would I need to reinstall perl again? If you have a means of backing up your data one way would be: -Backup your data and all configuration files (i.e. PPP setups...) -Remember to backup all the user's directories. -Make a list of all your packages/ports -Install 2.2X fresh. -Install the ports -Restore your data, configs and user directories. This may be one of the safest ways, because (as I see it ) you can not use most ports which you build in your 3.X box. You could also try to build world from 2.X sources, but I doubt many people have tried this on a 3.X system. The single most important thing to remember is to bakup your data. Preferably EVERYTHING even what you think you will not need. This way if something get's really screwed up you could re-install 3.X. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message