From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 24 08:32:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20266 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from warhol.informatics.sunysb.edu (root@warhol.informatics.sunysb.edu [129.49.137.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA20261 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from radonc-1.som.sunysb.edu (radonc-1.som.sunysb.edu [129.49.109.43]) by warhol.informatics.sunysb.edu (8.8.4/8.7.2) with ESMTP id LAA27612 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:27:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from RADONC-1/SpoolDir by radonc-1.som.sunysb.edu (Mercury 1.21); 24 Jun 97 11:27:32 -0500 Received: from SpoolDir by RADONC-1 (Mercury 1.21); 24 Jun 97 11:27:20 -0500 From: "Jacob J. Pinsky" Organization: Radiation Oncology SUNY Stony Brook To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:27:16 -0500 Subject: Upgrading a currently running FreeBSD machine Reply-to: jpinsky@radonc.som.sunysb.edu X-Confirm-Reading-To: jpinsky@radonc.som.sunysb.edu X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a computer that has been running FreeBSD 2.0.5 for a long, long time. I performed that installation from a Walnut Creek CD without problems. I would like to upgrade it to the latest release, but I am not sure of the procedure for doing this. How do I actually do the upgrade once I have the software in hand? I want to preserve all user accounts and data. Thanks. -Jacob Jacob Pinsky | JPINSKY@radonc.som.sunysb.edu University Hospital | Dept. of Radiation Oncology | Phone: (516)444-7735 SUNY Stony Brook | Fax: (516)689-8801 Stony Brook, NY 11794-7028