Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: from 2.2.8 to 3.2 with the 4CD set... Message-ID: <XFMail.990629132849.dburr@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <199906291632.JAA14804@athena.tera.com>
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 29-Jun-99), the great prophet Gary Kline once wrote: > My 4CD set from Walnut Creek was in the mail the other > day. I'm first going to install it on my experimental > platform...but I'd like to hear of any caveats from brave > souls who have already done this: upgraded from 2.X to 3.X > with the CD's. > > What gotcha is most likely to snag? --aside from sending > countless hours hand-upgrading /etc/rc.conf. I upgraded from 2.2.8 to 3.1 using the install CD. It was one of the smoothest upgrades I have ever had the pleasure of working with. You wil have to manually upgrade the /etc directory. When you install, it will backup your /etc for you, and will install a new one in its place. It is up to you to merge your local changes into the new /etc tree (e.g. rc.conf, sendmail.cf, etc.) A port that comes in very handy for this is in /usr/ports/sysutils/mergemaster, be sure and install this port before starting the upgrade! You do NOT have to recompile all fo your ports (except, perhaps, the ones that use low level SCSI, such as SANE, cdrecord, etc.) However, if you still want to keep your old 2.2.x binaries (i.e. /usr/local) around, be sure and install the "compat*" packages. Other than that, I can't really say much else. Everything worked flawlessly on my system after the upgrade (and the necessary recompiling of my SCSI-aware programs). --- Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>-Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your *NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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