From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 0:40:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sohara.dyndns.org (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A2C37B99A for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.dyndns.org) Received: (from steve@localhost) by sohara.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA01302; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:47:34 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000713091845.A2997@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:47:34 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Andreas Klemm Subject: RE: how to update from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to RELENG_4 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Jul-00 Andreas Klemm wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD 2.2.8 installation at a customers site. > Does somebody have any experience in upgrading such a machine to 4.0 ? There is a lot to be said for: Backup all user data. Install 4-STABLE on a new machine. Copy user data to new machine. I think the time it takes to do all the steps you outlined would pay for a new machine :) s/new/existing/ to save money and increase risk :) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith http://sohara.webhop.net/ A Better Way To Focus The Sun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message