From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 14:38:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABF937B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oneworld.owt.com (oneworld.owt.com [204.118.6.2]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA32307; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:38:39 -0700 Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by oneworld.owt.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f9ILcbt22009; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:38:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3BCF4BDB.3BB33F1F@owt.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:38:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xphilius@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best upgrade path from 4.1 Release to 4.4 Release, via CVsup if possible References: <20011018213117.13157.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X Philius wrote: > > Kent, > Cool. That makes sense. Binary upgrade, meaning to use sysinstall, right? Sorry if this was a > redundant post, I have been scanning this group for a while (since last Nov.), but I did not > honestly search the archive before posting this. And thanks for the security tip, I *think* I am > running a pretty tight box; only SSH access to the box, passwords for all members of wheel are > *'ed out, I'm using IPFW to block out all those mysterious ports that I don't understand, and a > high Kernel security level. However, I am itching to get upgraded and start following the security > patches more closely, I know I am pushing it running 4.1 Release, thus my attempt to upgrade via > source instead of taking the easy way out. I'll try upgrading my junk machine to 4.2 and then up > to 4.4 and see how that goes. You've been most helpful. Let me know if the 4.1>4.2r>4.4r works. Usually, you boot from the floppies and do the upgrade from there. It uses sysinstall. I don't know of a way to do it from the normal /stand/sysinstall. You have too many processes running in real time and I wouldn't trust it to begin with. kent > > Jason > > --- Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > If you go look at the archives, you will find the suggested way is to > > binary upgrade. Your problem was only fixed in 4.4-stable and then only > > recently. > > > > I really think you should try 4.2-r and then 4.4-r. BTW, there are > > massive security holes until you get to 4.4. So, turn off everything in > > inetd.conf. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message