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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Darren Henderson <darren@bmv.state.me.us>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 2.2.8 -> 4.3 upgrade
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.21.0109051547110.23654-100000@katahdin.bmv.state.me.us>
In-Reply-To: <20010902194650.A26090@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> So, I'm planning on:
>   1)  Full backup (maybe several :->)
>   2)  Boot 4.3-RELEASE CDs and select "Upgrade" (kernel and binaries
>       only)
>   3)  Mergemaster
>   4)  CVS update /usr/src to RELENG_4_3
>   5)  make buildworld
>   6)  make installworld
>   7)  reboot
> 
> If that leaves me with a running machine, then I'll
> 
>   1)  Mergemaster
>   2)  make buildkernel (GENERIC)
>   3)  make installkernel (GENERIC)
>   4)  reboot


Save yourself a lot of greif....

1 backup the box
2 verify backups
3 wipe the box
4 do a clean install
5 cvsup to the latest
6 configure kernel
7 installkernel
8 installworld
9 reinstall any ports/packages/custom software
A reinstall data/user files from the backup

This will end up being much simpler in the long run. The only real pain is
if you have a lot of users and need to deal with the changed passwords etc
and you can probably get around that with a few judicious restorations of
password files between 4 and 5.

________________________________________________________________________
Darren Henderson                                  darren@bmv.state.me.us
                                            darren.henderson@state.me.us


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