From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 19: 7:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from l1.ds.net (l1.ds.net [207.239.204.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7151737B8FE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:07:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from ds.net (i1p93.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.93]) by l1.ds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09004; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:07:27 -0500 Message-ID: <38ACB77F.426D8281@ds.net> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:07:43 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Ryuhei Tanabe , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 References: <20000216072546.RDPI28348.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com> <4.2.0.58.J.20000216100126.00a5b210@mail.webjapan.com> <20000217220642.B53575@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm currently running freebsd 2.2.8-stable on my machine. Well of course, > > I ve been thinking of upgrading my server to 3.x-stable. > > But I'm sort of scared of that I might just screw my server when I upgrade it. > > Is there any specific things, I should be very careful when upgrading > > Freebsd from 2.2.8 to 3.x ? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > To start with, > > 1) New boot blocks. > > 2) Incompatible wtmp and utmp between versions. > > 3) Rebuild shared-lib hints. Finally - if you're worried about breaking something during the upgrade you can always take what I call the "preferred path", backup/reinstall/migrate. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message