Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:41:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: from 2.2.8 to 3.2 with the 4CD set... Message-ID: <199906292141.OAA16231@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906291219280.27512-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> from Brett Taylor at "Jun 29, 99 12:21:53 pm"
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According to Brett Taylor: > Hi Gary, > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Gary Kline 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. > > Mergemaster is your friend. :-) (/usr/ports/sysutils/mergemaster) > > I've done the upgrade, by a "make upgrade" and a reinstall - neither of > those went badly. Gee, that's a backhanded compliment if I ever heard one! It's like: ``Well, eating glass really isn't *that* bad.'' > Actually the 2nd make upgrade I tried barfed, but since > I'd backed up /usr/home I just reinstalled and then un-tarballed /home. > > Just back up everything you might need and then try it - chances are it > will go great. :-) > Well, after all the feedback and notes---thanks, people---I feel a little better around the coming adventure. That may change if I'm here at 04:30, swilling down my 17th cup of stale coffee and ready to nuke these boxes... But hopefully not. Thanks, Brett. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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