From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 30 09:53:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA17872 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA17858 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA28740; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:53:40 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199607301653.JAA28740@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: BSDi --> FreeBSD To: dev@trifecta.com (Dev Chanchani) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Dev Chanchani at "Jul 30, 96 09:08:35 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Please help! I'm trying to replace my current BSDi 2.0.1 server > > 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 Please use FreeBSD 2.1.5, 2.1 is outdated and has been supersedded by this 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