From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 23:49:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07968 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:49:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07769 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA29962; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:19:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id SAA17265; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:19:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:19:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Albert Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 3.0-RELEASE from 2.2.8-RELEASE. Message-ID: <19990129181945.H8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990129074413.13403.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990129074413.13403.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Albert Chen on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:44:12PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 23:44:12 -0800, Albert Chen wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE, I want to upgrading 3.0-RELEASE. > Would anyone tell me anyting I should care regarding upgrading 3.0 > from 2.2.8? I know 3.0 supports ELF, but 2.2.8 doesn't. > So I'm afraid I can't use tools on 2.2.8 when I upgrading 3.0. Quite honestly, if you don't really have to, I wouldn't recommend doing this right now. 3.1 is just around the corner, and the upgrade path is very different. It will also be relatively complicated to upgrade from 3.0-RELEASE to 3.1-RELEASE. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message