From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 15:19:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F21C37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FAB43E65 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g94MJQIZ079573 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:19:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Thingie #2 - system upgrade methods. Message-ID: <20021004150421.K79505-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When there is a point release of -STABLE, there seem to be several methods for doing a binary upgrade, but none seem to fit my preference, and I wanted to post and see if I'm missing something. What I've been doing is downloading the boot floppies for the release, booting from it/them, and selecting binary upgrade via FTP. Once this is done things go rather smoothly. But it does require that I have a floppy drive installed and physical access to the console, which isn't always expedient. What I'd prefer to do is to get the whole floppy creation process out of the mix. I understand, after several painful wounds, that running the prior version sysinstall and upgrading from there doesn't work properly. However, that is by far the most intuitive approach to take and I'm sure it gets many newbies like myself in trouble. What I don't understand is why it isn't possible to simply download the newrev version of sysinstall, and run *that* on the current system, rather than go through the whole floppy process. The difference, obviously, is that in one case you are running the newrev kernel, and in the other you are running the newrev sysinstall under the old kernel. But it's hard to imagine changes to point releases that would cause a problem in doing the latter - all you are doing is downloading and installing files, they don't actuate until you reboot anyway. Am I missing something obvious here? It doesn't "feel" like I'm doing this properly. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message