From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 12:21:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F74237B805 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA20591; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:20:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:20:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: David Larkin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uprading from 2.2.8 to 4.x ? In-Reply-To: <395748DD.41E136B4@DJL.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, David Larkin wrote: > Could anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial on upgrading > from 2.2.8 to 4.x ? Read the FreeBSD Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ Specifically, chapter 18. > > Do I have to go 2.x to 3.x to 4.x ? Yep, most probably. > > Any ideas on how big a job this is ? Huge. It was recommended to me that you should install onto a new disk/machine, then copy your old stuff back. Starting from 3.0, FreeBSD changed to the elf format, which was a major step... > > > Thanks > > Dave > > > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message