From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 01:46:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22289 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 01:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22283 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 01:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA02014; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:43:43 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA08221; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:49:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970819094900.56463@strand.iii.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:49:00 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Snob Art Genre Cc: "Everyone's Favorite Mailing List" Subject: Re: Is it safe to make install 2.2 over 2.1.7? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 09:20:02PM -0400 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 09:20:02PM -0400, Snob Art Genre wrote: > Ok, so I CVSup'd and "make buildworld"'d the 2.2 source tree. Now I want > to install it. Is it safe to just make install it over my current setup? > Or had I better clear everything out first? Are there any gotchas I > should look out for? What about the kernel, I seem to recall that a make > install won't do anything about a new kernel? Check out http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/upgrade/upgrade.html which goes through the steps necessary. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- "The good guys dress in black. Remember that." NC5-RIPE