Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:54:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Raymond Brighenti <bargi@webfront.net.au> Subject: Re: Hints and tips for upgrading from 3.2 to latest release Message-ID: <XFMail.010601075417.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010531191331.B13040@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 01-Jun-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:46:58AM +1000, Raymond Brighenti wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We're going to be attempting to upgrade our mail server running Sendmail >> and Qpopper to the latest release of FreeBSD >> >> Apart from back everything up :) does anyone have any hints or tips or >> gotcha's in attempting this? > > Don't bother trying to upgrade by recompiling source, it's much more > trouble than it's worth. Just do a binary upgrade and it should all > just work. You'll want to install the /usr/src/etc/ sources and use > mergemaster(8) to complete your upgrade by updating /etc. > > Kris I have to second this! After failing source upgrade a couple of times I burned a 4.2 CD and did the binary upgrade. It worked very flawlessly. I have in the past managed to corrupt machines with the binary upgrade (back in the 2.2 days), but this was the most hasslefree upgrade I have ever seen. The snag in my case was to get XFree-4 working, but you may not have to - I had a i815 graphics controller onboard which I desperately wanted to get running. /micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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