From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 00:29:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27797 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27705 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA28821; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:28:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dean Hollister cc: Gavin Cameron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade question (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > I always felt that the `make world' upgrade path was the hard way. I > > always use the boot floppy -> select `upgrade' method but that's me. > > As a side issue, we're running 3.0-970807-SNAP. How "safe" would it be to > upgrade to 2.2.6? That is *not* safe since you are going back entire branches, and things have changed in 3.0 that are not backwards compatible to 2.2.x. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message