From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 17:34:57 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 17:34:54 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BF837B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from super.du.uab.ericsson.se (super.du.uab.ericsson.se [134.138.176.16]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.11.0/8.10.1/WIREfire-1.3) with ESMTP id f031YqG17561 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:34:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from news.du.uab.ericsson.se (news [134.138.176.24]) by super.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.10.1/8.10.1/erix-1.8) with ESMTP id f031X3n22808 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:34:50 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/news-1.1) id CAA06678 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:33:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from GATEWAY by news with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 03 Jan 2001 02:33:02 +0100 From: Kent Boortz Message-ID: Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: usenet@erix.ericsson.se References: <001401c074e9$3ee57140$4c0d23d4@gdb>, <01010214382806.19598@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Subject: Re: How to upgrade FreeBSD 3.2 to 4.X? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have done a source upgrade and it is *not* easy. I ended up with something that I can't trust so I will probably do a binary update later. I "think" I followed the step by step description in http://x67.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=679019176 but failed at some point to rebuild critical programs before the big rebuild. There is also lots of manual work with upgrading /etc or your custom kernel specification. Also I think you first have to upgrade to the latest sources in RELENG_3, build and install, then upgrade to RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. Whatever method you use, don't forget to backup things, most important your /etc directory. kent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message