Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 19:32:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: clabrown@granitepost.com (Clarence Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Freebsd Questions) Subject: Re: 3.4 to 4.0 CD upgrade Message-ID: <200006110032.TAA30490@sullivan.realtime.net> In-Reply-To: <000a01bfd323$28421a00$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> from Clarence Brown at "Jun 10, 2000 05:30:53 pm"
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> > heavy for a while, is the 4.1 CD release from Walnut Creek close? should I > just wait for it? > I have heard a mid-July date. > > The instructions in the CD for upgrading are terse at best. I think that > I hope you understand that they start with "back up your system" first. :-) > > initialization files and organization has changed from 3.x to 4.x but I'm > It has. Nothing to drastic, however. > > not really sure. I've heard of mergemaster, and one "helpful" sole actually > told me everything I'd ever want to know about mergemaster in a previous > question using a single sentence of maybe 3 words. > I don't use mergemaster. I go through and diff /usr/src/etc/* with /etc/*, one at a time. > > Any help, even 3 word explanations would be appreciated, couldn't hurt... > right?!? > Make a copy of any file you have changed in /etc, and then go ahead and install/upgrade. Then go through and put your changes back in to the /etc/* files. I think you are pretty safe simply moving things like password and shells back. But you will need to modify rc.conf(.local) to what you had before. That should be about it. But then, I have never upgraded from the CD. :-) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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