Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:23:10 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: "Grant Peel" <grant@thenetnow.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrade Message-ID: <200303142123.10234.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <007e01c2ea7d$52e02cb0$6401a8c0@grant> References: <007e01c2ea7d$52e02cb0$6401a8c0@grant>
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On Friday 14 March 2003 05:59 pm, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any experts who are willing to talk with me off list about > upgrading? (4.4 -> 4.7 or 5.0) You don't need much help off list. There is very good documentation for what you want to do in the handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook. Also you don't want 5.0 unless you can figure out the upgrade by yourself. See the early adopters guide on why. For the upgrade procedure, use the steps in the section of the handbook for upgrading your source using something like cvsup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html make sure to use the right cvs tag. RELENG_4_7 is probably what you want in your supfile. Then use the next section of the handbook for how to rebuild: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html making sure to read the section on rebuilding your kernel. The order minus the details is make buildworld mergemaster -p make buildkernel make installkernel reboot to single user mode mount -a make installworld of course read the details in /usr/src/UPDATING and the handbook. Once you've read all of the relevant sections and cant get it to work, then ask some questions on the list and we'll be glad to help. Make sure to either make good backups first or use a non critical machine to test the upgrade on. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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