Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:53:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: dev@trifecta.com (Dev Chanchani) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi --> FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607301653.JAA28740@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960730090652.7317A-100000@www.trifecta.com> from Dev Chanchani at "Jul 30, 96 09:08:35 am"
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> On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Please help! I'm trying to replace my current BSDi 2.0.1 server <isot.com > > > 206.24.68.1> with FreeBSD 2.1. > > > > Please use FreeBSD 2.1.5, 2.1 is outdated and has been supersedded by this > > new release. > > I have been waiting to upgrade 2.1 -> 2.1.5, however, when the new > release came out, many people were having problems. Can you elaborate on these? I haven't seen many reported 2.1.5 problems. > Is it safe to do a make world on a running system safely? Not really, as some things will be in a transitory state for long periods of time some programs may core dump. > Also, do you need to backup configuration files or such, or is your > system safe as is. Any advice would be appreciated. You should _ALWAYS_ have backups of EVERYTHING, not just your configuration files. Disk drives do fail, and not having a backup of them is asking for a long and painful night or two of reconstruction. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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