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    Thank you... Also is there any fix files that can fix some of the
problems fixed from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 stability without doing a full
upgrade?

Thank you,

Rod

Fred Gilham wrote:

> You wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
>     I have read the install notes and still am unclear on the best
> method of upgrading from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 with little change of our
> source
> configuration. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> ----------------------------------------
>
> What I do is to get just the source, install it, and do a `make world'
>
> in /usr/src.  I can do this on a system that's in service.  It takes
> about 4 hours on a P-166.  Once this finishes, I re-make the kernel
> with our kernel configuration file (I've set it up so I use the same
> one on all our machines) and reboot and I'm up with an upgraded
> system.  I just did this yesterday on one of our systems.
>
> Once this is known to work, you can remote-mount the /usr/src and
> /usr/obj file systems on different machines and do `make reinstall' on
>
> those machines.  That way you only have to compile once.
>
> I've been upgrading this way for a long time and it seems the most
> transparent to me.  The only problem I have is when they add new files
>
> to /etc (such as login.conf) or change the group file or something.  I
>
> have to fix this stuff by hand.
>
> -Fred