Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:27:15 -0800 (PST) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, daverk@epix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.4 to 4.5? Message-ID: <20020205102715.18714.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3C5E8291.5050709@owt.com>
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Kent, Much obliged for those great links. Well, I stumbled upon the section in the handbook (I think it was the handbook) that deals with upgrades. It listed the cvsup, sysinstall and complete reinstall methods. I figured i'd give the sysinstall a try because it seemed to be the easiest. What a disaster!!! I dunno what happened, I mean I think I did what I was supposed to do (yeah right who am I kidding) and then I rebooted, which caused things to stop. It gave an error message about not being able to find the kernel. Luckily, I was able to load an older kernel and get my system up and working. I couldn't find much about the source method. Although, I might have found something but I am still really confused about cvsup. Right now I'm leaning towards a full reinstall (because i'm having a few other problems... notable with XFree86). But I'd really like to know how to do an upgrade using the sources. As for the cvsup version I'm running... well I don't know really... but the server software version is SNAP_16_1e. Thanks in advance... -Sameer BTW... Stephen, can you check that link again? For some reason I can't access it. --- Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > > > Dave Kaufman wrote: > > > On Monday 04 February 2002 05:56 am, you wrote: > > > >>Bsd Neophyte wrote: > >> > >>>Is it possible to do an upgrade w/o doing a reinstall? > >>> > >>>Would I simply update my ports and then do a "make install"... or is > >>>there another way? > >>> > >>>OR... if someone can point me to a URL that gives the step-by-step > >>>instructions... that would also help. > >>> > >>The ports and the OS version aren't coupled. That is why you cvsup > >>"tag=." for the ports. The instructions for upgrading FreeBSD from 4.4 > >> > >> > 4.5 are already on your system. You will find them around line > >> > >>349+/- in /usr/src/UPDATING. > >> > >>Kent > >> > > > > i don't find UPDATING in /usr/src/ all i find are crypto, kerberos5, > > kerberosIV, secure and sys. did i not install something? > > > You have to install the sources before you can upgrade to something. > When you installed, you didn't choose to do that. That is how UPDATING > gets added to your /usr/src directory. There is some stuff in the > Handbook about setting up your install. I was looking at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > > You have to add the source for the system and the kernel before you > can upgrade. This all goes into /usr/src. There were some tutorials > for newbies but they have been rearranging the setup and I don't have > any idea where they were moved to. You also need to specialize your > kernel as a final step. The question is which small step you want to > take first. Based on what you have said, you have some reading and > downloading to do first. > > You can cvsup and add everything but if you have a CD with the sources > on it, you can add your current version from the CD. It is much faster > to upgrade that with cvsup than it is to install the source with > cvsup. If your connection to the Internet was a T1, it wouldn't > matter. Since you are on 4.4, I would expect that you only have a > version of cvsup-16.1 available that has the 9 Sep 2001 bug in it. You > need at least 16.1e for starters. Version 16.1d doesn't have the bug > but 16.1e will not let you connect to a server running a buggy > version. I don't know of any but I wouldn't start out taking a chance. > I think a more recent version will be on the 4.5 CD. You can download > a copy of it from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ and > > pkg_add cvsup-16.1e.tgz > > There are mirrors out there that have the 4.5-iso on it. An binary > upgrade using that for the source is the easiest. I started > downloading it today and filled up root. It was telling me the > download time was 3 hrs. I did it with a modem about 1.5 years back > and I believe it was a 40 hour download. A T1 would be less than an > hour to download a 650 MB CDROM image file. > > It won't be too long until the sun comes up and by then I will have > shutdown. Good luck on the upgrade. It isn't difficult. You just have > to be methodical and follow a cook book. A discusion of some of this > is available on http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/. I have a > system upgrade down to running 5 really simple shell scripts. So, it > can't be very complicated. Running mergemaster is where you can shoot > yourself in the foot. When it comes time to be safe, everybody > recursively copies /etc into a /etc.bak or some name you can remember. > Recovering is easier that way :). I have 3 or 4 different setups and I > will screw one of them up in the time frame of 6-12 months. I have > copies on the other machines and don't always do the backup. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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