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Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade to 2.2.2 from 2.2.1
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 07:17:26 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: echiu@majendie.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <33AF819B.C44@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "Jun 24, 97 11:13:15 am"
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In a previous message, Nadav Eiron said:
> Elton Chiu wrote:
> > 
> > I have just received the Release 2.2.2 CD from the mail. I have tried the
> > upgrade option from the sysinstall and found it a little confusing. Could
> > anyone please advise me whether there are any better ways to upgrade with
> > the CD? If the sysinstall is the only way, what are the proper steps? I
> > don't want to reinstall the OS, however.
> > 
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Elton.
> > 
> > ======================
> >  Use UNIX - You next.
> > ======================
> 
> The other way is to upgrade the source tree and make world, but I find
> sysinstall easier most of the time. What you need to do is:
> 
> 1. Backup /etc
> 2. Boot the installation disk for 2.2.2 and choose the upgrade option.
> Be careful to select the same distributions as you did for the first
> installations, or some of the old versions will be retained.

Here's a question then. 2.2.1's X distribution was linked with 3.0 
current, and we were all warned against loading it. Is that fixed for 
2.2.2? So wilee upgrade, the entire distribution work ok?


> 3. When sysinstall is finished it will let you merge your old /etc
> files. Simply diff new and old versions to find out what have changed.
> 4. Reboot, and be happy.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Nadav
> 
> 


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