From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 7:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11805.mail.yahoo.com (web11805.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AAFE37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011019144256.67699.qmail@web11805.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.73.64.94] by web11805.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:42:56 PDT Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:42:56 -0700 (PDT) From: X Philius Reply-To: xphilius@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Best upgrade path from 4.1 Release to 4.4 Release, via CVsup if possible To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3BCF4BDB.3BB33F1F@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Kent, Well, managed to make it through 'make buildworld' without any Stops, upgrading from 4.1 Release to 4.2 Release. Now I've got to get myself physically in front of the machine to drop into single user and do the rest of the upgrade. I am afraid I may end up using Sysinstall to upgrade my real server to 4.4 though. Part of what I am trying to figure out is how to minimize downtime and "face time" with the server. I've got an odd co-lo deal, and I want to spend as little time as possible in the closet by the router ;-) If I have to do a two stage upgrade, then I'll have to sit there and wait while the 4.2 - 4.4 make buildworld runs. Both of my machines boot fine off of the 4.1 CD's, so I think I would run Sysinstall while booted from CD, as opposed to doing the floppy thang. Do you know if I can run the 4.1 version of sysinstall to upgrade a machine from 4.2 to 4.4? N odd case, but I imagine lost of people end up with the same situation. Old media and a machine that has been upgraded to some intermediary point. Thanks much for the assistance. I'll let you know how the rest of the upgrade goes. Jason --- Kent Stewart wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message