Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:53:42 -0500 From: kitsune <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: From 4.7 to 4.8 Message-ID: <20030407225342.08cf7a9d.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <200304062141.33136.taxman@acd.net> References: <200304062023.37473.fallenbr@uol.com.br> <200304062141.33136.taxman@acd.net>
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 21:41:33 -0400 taxman <taxman@acd.net> wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2003 07:23 pm, Konrad Scorciapino wrote: > > Hi, > > > > From freebsd.org: > > > If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, you generally > > > will have three options: > > > - Using the binary upgrade option of sysinstall(8). > > as far as I understand it, it's the worst of the three options. Back up and > reinstall is the most reliable. I've done many many source upgrades, and > never had serious problems that trying again didn't fix. Just my two cents. > If you care to do the binary upgrade read on. > > > How can I do it? > > You need to run the new sysinstall. You would get this by either booting from > a 4.8 Release CD, or the 4.8 Release boot floppies. If you do the floppies, > then you can choose how you get the rest, by ftp or whatever. > Make sure to read the whole warning, especially the part about good backups. > > Tim I personally like sysinstall upgrade option myself. I used it to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 just a few hours ago. What I did was goto options change the release name from 4.7-release to 4.8-release and then used the upgrade option. The cool thing about this is no boot floppies or any thing are needed. I then installed the kernel source and the ports. I then compiled and installed the generic kernel and rebooted to test it. It worked. From there what I did was retweak my previous kernel config to make use of the new stuff in 4.8. All in all it was easy to do and I did not require killing X or anything while I was doing it. The only thing that happened is that a few commands like top stopped working for awhile.
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