Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> To: dev@trifecta.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading from 2.1.0R to 2.1.5R (Was: BSDi --> FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199607301413.KAA17920@tbd.gfoster.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960730090652.7317A-100000@www.trifecta.com> (message from Dev Chanchani on Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:08:35 -0400 (EDT))
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I have installed the 2.1.5 source and made world without problems on several 2.1R machines including the one I am typing this on. Make sure you completely replace everything under /usr/src, not just overwrite it and make sure you make a new kernel after making world and before rebooting. One of the FreeBSD core members said once that you should be running single-user when making world but I have not found this to be necessary. Except for saving a copy of custom kernel configuration files, there is no need to treat config. files specially but I suspect that some things may have changed, e.g. /etc/sysconfig. Using the 2.1R configuration files when everything else is 2.1.5R has not resulted in any incompatibilities for me. I haven't had time to chase this down. Of course, you should always have a current backup! I will shortly be doing this on a system which I took from 2.0 to 2.1 by the same method and I will report any problems I encounter. Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> >Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:08:35 -0400 (EDT) >From: Dev Chanchani <dev@trifecta.com> > >I have been waiting to upgrade 2.1 -> 2.1.5, however, when the new >release came out, many people were having problems. Is it safe to do a >make world on a running system safely? Also, do you need to backup >configuration files or such, or is your system safe as is. Any advice >would be appreciated. > >Dev Chanchani <dev@trifecta.com>
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