From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 20:29:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7AD37B422 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ska1 (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AA3D158EB9; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003701c0d059$d2518b00$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Bryce Newall" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" References: <20010428175721.D43175@xor.obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 3.5 --> 3.5.1 upgrade difficulties Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:09:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is question not a suggestion..... Would this be a good time to tar up : /usr/home /var/mail /etc and whatever else is important and valuable; and the bite the bullet and fresh install 4.3 from CD make sure you have a good secondary MX, so no new mail is lost a couple of hours downtime on a saturday evening is preferential to several days of pulling teeth Kulraj ------ Original Message ----- From: "Kris Kennaway" To: "Bryce Newall" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:57 PM Subject: Re: 3.5 --> 3.5.1 upgrade difficulties On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:59:25PM -0700, Bryce Newall wrote: > Hi all, > > A couple of days ago I wrote in because of difficulties going from FreeBSD > 3.5-STABLE to 4.3-STABLE. Today I decided to try stepping up to > 3.5.1-STABLE first, but have discovered that I can't even do that.... Not sure what's screwed up your 3.5.1 upgrade. You'll have more luck doing a binary installation; there are other hoops to jump through going from 3.5.1 to 4.3. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message