From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 11:20:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9A037B409 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A5D43E8A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05422 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:25:32 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:25:32 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Q: how to upgrade least painfully Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - I have a fairly simple FreeBSD at RELENG_4_5 level and would like to move forward to RELENG_4_6. Since I have a successful kernel-build, boot, and network configurations set up, I would like to preserve them if I can. What directories and files should I back up for use and/or information later on? (I suppose '/etc/*', but how about others?) What about the configuration to which the kernel is built? The boot setup? Will the user accounts come along transparently? What should I expect will need reconfiguration after I am running on 4_6? I did a CVSUP, kernel build, and boot cycle in my 4_5 installation, and had no particular rework to do afterward, though I did walk through the boot parameters. When I'm happy with the results, how should I clean up - and ultimately remove - the older version? Thanks for any comments and pointers. I'm new at this. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message