From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 17:58:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14075 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14067 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zvAuA-0001L9-00; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:58:35 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id BAA00923; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:56:04 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06526; Wed, 30 Dec 98 01:56:00 GMT Message-Id: <368AD9D1.E69854AF@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 01:56:33 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Busarow Cc: Dale Phillips , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will upgrading to 2.2.8 affect my applications References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Busarow wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Dale Phillips wrote: > > I have upgrading questions too. > > Is there a url for this process? > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/UPGRADE.TXT > > > At 11:37 AM 12/29/98 +0000, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: > > > > > >Hi > > >I'm running several applications on 2.2.6. Here they are: > > >inn1.7.2, apache1.2.5, tac-plus2.1, sendmail8.9.1 > > > > > >I would like to upgrade to 2.2.8 but I'm afraid if I go with > > >upgrade option in sysinstall I might have to reinstall and > > >configure everything I'm running. > > > > > >Would you install 2.2.8 from scratch and add the packages and configure > > >them again? > > Going from 2.2.6 to 2.2.8 should be painless. Follow the suggestion > in the URL above and run a backup before hand. > I've just u/g from 2.2.6 -> 2.2.8 and it was painless. If you are running a custom kernel, install the kernel sources, and re-build the kernel, but check for u/g drivers etc. first. e.g I've got a 3COM 3C900 NIC which has a new driver (xl0) so I had to modify my config file first. > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message