From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 23:35:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22864 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22850 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:35:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA12415; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:34:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:34:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Hovey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading cleanly and quickly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > I looked thru the list archives and all I can find are questions on how, > but no answers on how to cleanly upgrade an existing system. > > I have machines from 2.0.5 thru 2.2.2 that I would like to upgrade to > 2.2.5. > > Would I just copy out my /etc dir struct contents, use the boot flop, pick > upgrade, and then move /etc/stuff back where needed? Or does it not trash > /etc stuff? 2.2.5 sysinstall won't trash /etc/, it'll put conflicts into /etc/upgrade. But it's not a bad idea to backup anyway. > Are there other areas I would need to save out such as /sbin etc where I > put my own binaries or does it not whipe, but copy over things instead? No, existing files are not erased. > Has anyone hit any easy to fall into boners I should watch out for? On the pre-2.2.2 boxes, the config file is now rc.conf so they'll need to be hand-rewired and sysconfig moved out of the way. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major