From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 13: 1:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from master.dev.wc.teleias.com (ip-216-73-143-77.vantas.net [216.73.143.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269F737B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tenebras.com (claudia.oldv4.mmp.teleias.com [191.255.1.108]) by master.dev.wc.teleias.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF81A4B0A; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B968496.4EBEED4@tenebras.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:01:26 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Henderson Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 2.2.8 -> 4.3 upgrade References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Darren Henderson wrote: > 1 backup the box > 2 verify backups > 3 wipe the box > 4 do a clean install > 5 cvsup to the latest if you'd really like to save yourself some grief: 5 cvsup to RELENG_4_3 > 6 configure kernel > 7 installkernel > 8 installworld reverse the order of the last two, in general: setenv KERNCONF MYKERNEL make world && make kernel && reboot > 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. and check login.conf for 'passwd_format' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message