From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 12:54:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.state.me.us (mailhub.state.me.us [141.114.122.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542E537B410 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from katahdin.bmv.state.me.us by mailhub.state.me.us with ESMTP; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:48:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by katahdin.bmv.state.me.us (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA20522; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:52:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:52:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Henderson To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 2.2.8 -> 4.3 upgrade In-Reply-To: <20010902194650.A26090@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message