From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 22 12:43:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from arthur.avalon.net (unknown [204.71.106.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1040B37B6B0 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from avalon.net (v90-130.ic.avalon.net [205.217.148.179]) by arthur.avalon.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26265 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:41:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A6C9F8C.3153C1F5@avalon.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:01:41 -0600 From: Greg Nelsen Reply-To: excalibr@avalon.net Organization: Greg's Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Upgrading from a 3.x stable to a 4.2 stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I want to upgrade a clients FreeBSD machine from 3.x stable to a 4.2 stable remotely. 1. Can I do this? (I see that the upgrading from source tutorial is gone). 2. Can I do just the Kernel, or how much of the source tree should I get or update. 2. Can some one point me to comprehensive docs to do this? I've installed and secured FreeBSD a few times, customized and combined some ports, rebuilt the kernel, patched and rebuilt core binaries for security, but never upgraded kernel (or run cvsup --my connection here is not very fast). Note: I'm not on any mailing lists except the security announce ones, so you may have to reply to me directly to reach me. I really need a competent mentor some where to chat with occasionally about FreeBSD... I've been working with computers since my mom taught me to program fortran at age 8 in 1965 --mom was an innovative math teacher in the public schools.... The university loaned her a key punch.... I've used UNIX machines for over 10 years, and I've been pressed into service as a unix system administrator (first on Solaris then Linux now on FreeBSD) the last two+ years. I've been working alone here installing, securing, and putting on line, internet webservers for a couple of small local companies, and it would be nice to have some competent people to talk to occasionally about this kind of work; but hey, point me to some documentation. I've read and experimented my way here. I can read on. (I'm a longtime Deadhead with a BS in biology that is heavy on physics, chemistry and math but without much emphasis on biology.) Greg excalibr@avalon.net greg@greggy.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message