Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:11:22 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Mike Sturdee <mike@mikesweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <38A515AA.940CB178@3-cities.com> References: <4.1.20000212012932.0095c9a0@mail.mikesweb.com>
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Mike Sturdee wrote: > > I've got a coupld 3.2 and 3.3 boxes that I'd like to make sure have the > latest and greatest installs for security reasons.. what's the > best/easisest way to go about this? I've looked into cvsup, and I believe I > tried that one time in a 2.2 and didn't have the best of luck.. At 3.2-RC, I didn't have much luck either. Editing the /etc files were taking longer than the builds did. Then, I learned about Mergemaster. I can cvsup and do a buildworld in an hour. The kernel and installworld, followed by running mergemaster add a little time. You just have to read the articles on doing a buildworld. The hardest choice on cvsup is finding a good server. A server with 3995 users out of 4000 allowed is not terribly swift :). I use a 56kb modem and it doesn't take that long to keep current with 3.4-Stable. I have upgraded from 3.2 > 3.3 > 3.4-Stable using cvsup. There are gotcha's along that path. Ruslan spelled out how to upgrade to 4.0, which involved doing a buildworld followed by making a kernel and rebooting. Then you did the installworld in single user mode. I don't know if you need to reboot after the installworld and redo the kernel or not. Usually it comes back with "everything is current". The rationale on building and installing a new kernel is to let you fix a broken kernel before you do the installworld and really mess things up. Kent > Thanks in advance. > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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