From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 16:14:48 2003 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 9789637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:14:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.smartnet.se (mail.smartnet.se [194.237.72.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1258843F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johannes2@smartnet.se) Received: (qmail 24866 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 22:57:25 -0000 Received: from du-49-172.ppp.telenordia.se (HELO ?62.127.49.172?) (62.127.49.172) by 194.237.72.231 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 22:57:25 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: johannes2@smartnet.se@mail.smartnet.se Message-Id: Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:14:50 +0100 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Johannes Angeldorff Subject: Good way of upgrading from FreeBSD 4.5? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Dear FreeBSD:ers, I am happy to use FreeBSD for web, mail and applications serving. But when I come to the question about how to upgrade to a newer FreeBSD version, I really could need your expertise! We have two FreeBSD 4.5 boxes. Both boxes have been installed with =46reeBSD 4.5 from CD, and then tweaked with reconfigured kernels and a few applications installed, mainly qmail (replacing sendmail), mod-php, mysql, pico and a few more. Both boxes have around 25 users each. Both boxes have tweaked settings in /etc/rc.conf and some other /etc/-files. My question is, if anyone can give a hint on how to upgrade safely from FreeBSD 4.5 to FreeBSD 5.0...? If we download FreeBSD 5.0 and install it on our FreeBSD 4.5 boxes, what will we have to do? Is there risk that all settings, contents and installed applications will be erased? Very thankful for all help on this matter...! -- Regards, Smartnet Sverige AB Johannes Angeldorff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message