From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 24 10:08:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25439 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25434 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA10511; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:08:15 GMT Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Jacob J. Pinsky" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading a currently running FreeBSD machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jacob J. Pinsky wrote: > 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. Naturally you'll make a backup of your system before you start the upgrade. But, it should be a snap. Just choose Upgrade from the installation menus. It puts the new files destined for /etc into a subdirectory of /etc, leaving your current data untouched. The hardest part will be reconciling the entries in your /etc/sysconfig with the new rc.conf file (and that is not very difficult either). Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82