From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 00:23:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA07224 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:23:42 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA07170 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:23:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13288; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:23:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA14215; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:22:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA04529; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 08:15:17 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507050615.IAA04529@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 1.1.5 -> 2.0.5 upgrade To: lafollet@andante.cis.temple.edu (Paul LaFollette) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 08:15:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507042301.XAA17175@andante.cis.temple.edu> from "Paul LaFollette" at Jul 4, 95 11:01:04 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1329 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Paul LaFollette wrote: > > I plan to back up everything of course, but is there any way to preserve > /usr/local/src and /usr/users during the upgrade process? Or should I just > bite the bullet, tar them over to another machine, and then untar them > when I am done? You can preserve whole file systems, but i think you will have to convert them to the 4.4BSD format (there used to be an fsck option - i forgot it). > What stuff in /etc am I gonna forget to save? You can `recycle' many things of /etc, e.g. sendmail.cf, aliases, the master.passwd file (as long as you're using the same password encryption), the named and resolver configuration... > What stuff elsewhere am I gonna forget to save? /var/cron/tabs, if you have been using them. Maybe more? All config- uration files of non-system applications. Most likely below /usr/local. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > Do I correctly assume that I will need to rebuild all my current applications? You don't need. You can install the FreeBSD 1 compat package (i.e., the shared libs). I've recently upgraded my notebook from 1.1.5.1 to 2.0.5. I'm sure i have forgotten something above. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)