From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 00:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20301 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:15:48 -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 AAA20291 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:15:44 -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 AAA04728; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:15:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "bahwi@technologist.com" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.1.7 to 2.2.5 or 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: <199804111506.KAA10403@cs1.cityscope.net> 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, bahwi@technologist.com wrote: > I am working for a person who wishes to upgrade from 2.1.7 FreeBSD to 2.2.5, > or, if 2.2.6 is -STABLE, then to that, if he will validate it, otherwise it is > to 2.2.5. Are there any difficulties with upgrading to 2.2.5? Not that I know of, other than login classes, which can bite if you have big processes. You will probably want to go into /etc/login.conf and raise the limits if you run big processes on that system. > I am going to cvsup the source and make world. Should I go to 2.2 then > to 2.2.5 or what? This is 2.1.7 so I must be careful. Any help would be > greatly appreciated, even a web address with more information. Many > thanks. You can go as gently as you want. If you want to go slow, I'd go 2.1.7 -> 2.2.1 -> 2.2.5. 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