Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bill Sandiford <bill@interlinks.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810221042410.1458-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981019130312.27180A-100000@ns2.interlinks.net>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bill Sandiford wrote: > Please excuse the lame newbie question here. I have 3 FreeBSD systems. > Two of them are 2.2.5 and one is 2.2.6. I want to upgrade my machines to > 3.0 (mainly for SMP support). Problem is, I have read through the > handbook and can't find any info on how to UPGRADE the systems. Do I just > get the boot.flp and reboot or is there some type of utility. I want to > do this without losing the data and configuration that I currently have. There's two ways to do it: 1. Boot the boot floppy and select 'upgrade' from the main menu. 2. Download the source and do 'make aout-to-elf'. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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