From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 22:16: 4 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 E5EBF37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:16:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D11643E6E for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0H12000FHRO1NC@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:09:37 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H12RSE02.J9Z for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:12:14 +0800 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:12:14 +1000 From: BSD Freak Subject: Using CVS for "clean install" upgrades To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <148be35148b568.148b568148be35@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en 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 Hi all, I'm interested in the "clean install" upgrade method. By this I mean when a new version of FreeBSD comes out, you 1. copy all your data and configuration files from the machine you want to upgrade to another machine on the network 2. do clean install deleting everything on the machine being upgraded 3. move the data and configuration files back over to the original machine with the newly upgraded OS I know some of you do this and I really want to adopt one of these methods. I remember someone on the list mentioning they do this using CVS in some sort of semi-automated fashion. I would very appreciative if this person(s) could supply me details or a link on accomplishing this. Thanks in advance.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW to mBox, receive faxes to any email address! Find out more http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message