From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 11 1:26:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3192237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:26:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from flash.mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua (flash.mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua [194.44.157.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEDF43FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from artem@mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua) Received: from mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua (rainbow.mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua [192.168.9.241]) by flash.mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2B9OH61086393 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:24:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from artem@mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua) Message-ID: <3E6DAB3F.9000605@mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:24:15 +0200 From: "Artyom V. Viklenko" Organization: IIAT NTU "KhPI" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: ru, uk, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.3 References: <87CAE486F1968A4B823A6CEEB23B8D8D738194@hermes2.intranet.eurotrust.dk> <009801c2e7ad$5d3afaa0$2b32a8c0@hemligt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Søren Klintrup wrote: > itchibahn wrote: > >>Hi, I currently have FBSD 3.3-TABLE and wanting to upgrade. I've >>searched for docs but could't find real helpful info. >> >>Is there anything I should be aware of (besides a good backup) before >>upgrading from 3.3 to 4.7? Can I just use sysinstall to upgrade? > > > a sysinstall upgrade SHOULD work (have not tried), however if you want to do > it the buildworld/installworld way you cannot just do a complete update. > > One way to do the upgrade is do a sysinstall binary upgrade to get all your > binary files/libs up to date, and then do a buildworld/kernel/installworld - > finishing up with a mergemaster > > Always remember to read UPDATING in /usr/src after doing a cvsup - this > should work just fine. > > If the machine is important and you don't want to "risk" it - you can > upgrade each minor version one at a time (ie 4.2->4.3 etc etc) doing > buildworlds and reading UPDATING each time tracking every change - this is > the "safe" way to do it, especially if you aren't too sure how to do the > update :-) This is wery long procedure... And what about additional packages? They all should be reinstalled/updated. IMHO, much better would be to install new system and merge configuration into it from old one. This was my scenario many-many months ago ( move from 3.3-RELEASE to 4.1.1-RELEASE ). -- Sincerely yours, Artyom V. Viklenko. ====================================================== System Administrator artem@mipk-kspu.kharkov.ua ------------------------------------------------------ IIAT NTU "KhPI" 21, Frunze Str., Kharkov Ukraine 61002 Phone: +380 (572) 400026 Fax: +380 (572) 474062 ====================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message