From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 25 21:44:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07945 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07940 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA00901; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:42:42 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:41:57 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: pirat sriyotha cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, pirat sriyotha wrote: > can i simply upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7 and the whole system is similar > to or equivalent to install a new 2.2.7 ? The upgrade is pretty much straight-forward (done it twice, so far) - but a backup is always is a good idea. Once you've upgraded, you can inspect the files in /etc/upgrade for differences and see whether you want to merge them into /etc. Notes for the upgrader: 1. Print out /etc/fstab before you start. 2. Print current h/w from dmesg. -- Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message