From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 18:37:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0DF16A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gv.elitists.org (gv.elitists.org [64.40.88.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E43043FCB for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsdlists@elitists.org) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (h202.elitists.org [64.40.88.202]) by gv.elitists.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D96FEB63 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:38:43 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 20:37:41 -0500 From: "F. Even" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: upgrading 4.0 to stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 01:37:45 -0000 My problem being though is the box is about 60 mi. away and I have limited access to it. I was hoping to be able to pull this off remotely.... What I'm basically looking for is guidance on actually doing an upgrade. So...when I CVSup, what tags should I do? Do there still exist tags for RELENG_4_0, or is the next step straight to RELENG_4_3? Can I find the "UPDATING" document that everyone keeps mentioning on the website anywhere before I go grabbing source, etc.? I'd really like to find some reading materials before I just dive into it...it just seems that the materials for this topic are a little scarce on the site. Thanks, Frank -------- upgrading 4.0 to stable Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org Thu Oct 2 15:13:07 PDT 2003 * Previous message: upgrading 4.0 to stable * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, F. Even wrote: > I'm still kind of hung up looking for some definitive answers on this issue. > Perhaps you guys can help me out? The definitive answer is, back up your data, and do a clean install of the version you want to run. I'd suggest waiting for the upcoming 4.9-Release. Any other method has way too many dangers and complexities. HTH, Doug