From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 10:44:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28392 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07969; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bill Sandiford cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Versions of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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