From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 04:29:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11826 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 04:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11821 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 04:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id OAA23584; Fri, 30 May 1997 14:26:48 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:26:48 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: "" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 2.2.1 CD In-Reply-To: <199705301103.UAA25495@hitomi.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 30 May 1997, wrote: > > Hi!, > > (Pleases cc to me any response as I've not subscribed to this list) > > I need to upgrade my FreeBSD box 2.1.7 to 2.2.1 from CD (Walnut Creek). This > is an off line machine. > > How reliable is the upgrade using sysinstall ? I've searched mail archives > but couldn't find any hints on this. Also nothing on handbook on > upgrading. (hopefully I've not missed it) Perhaps the right time to include > something about upgrading the OS :-) #include The upgrade is pretty reliable, with the slight exception of /etc. What you should probably do is backup /etc (better yet, the whole machine), do the upgrade, and then merge the changes with the new files in /etc. If you'll install compat_21 (and every other distribution thing you've installed in 2.1.7) you'll have a workable system quite fast. Note that some people (including myself) had a problem with ld.so when installing 2.2.1 (the symptoms are that xdm does not find some of its shared libraries). The solution is to build it from source (it's in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld). That's the only problem I had when upgrading 2.1.7 to 2.2.1. One more thing: 2.2.2 should be much more reliable. If possible, upgrade to it (or to a STABLE snapshot). This release addresses many of the bugs 2.2.1 had such as the ahc driver problem. > > Also I've seen many reports of problems from those who have upgraded to > 2.2.1. How significant are those those problems ? I've not had ANY problems > with 2.1.7 sofar. > > I've installed many programs on this system and do not want a complete > reinstallation. The machine is used for research purposes. > > Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. > > > Regards, > Ajith. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ajith Pasqual - Hatori-Aizawa Lab., Dept of Info. & Comm. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo. > Email:pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (WWW)http://www.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~pasqual/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Nadav