Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:29:58 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: John Fox <jjf@mind.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question re: binary upgrade Message-ID: <15196.56742.730697.527948@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <121106977@toto.iv>
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John Fox <jjf@mind.net> types: > Howdy. > > I've got a server running 2.2.2-RELEASE, and the darned thing needs > to be updated to 4.3-RELEASE. I know that if I were going to > perform this upgrade from source I'd have to go in stages, from > release to stable, stable to release, etc., until ending at the > final version. > > However, we're planning on a binary upgrade, and I'm thinking (and > hoping!) that this will allow the upgrade to take place in one big > jump, rather than several small ones. > > I'd appreciate hearing about the accuracies of this guess, and any > other information deemed relevant by the knowledgeable. I would *seriously* recommend doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. The difference is that the upgrade won't delete old, unused files - including your old configuration files. For normal upgrades (4.1->4.2, etc) their aren't a lot of old files and keeping the configuration files is convenient. In going from 2.2.2, many of the old configuration files aren't used any more, so there's not much point in leaving them around. And leaving all the other old files around is asking for problems. If you want it to look "upgrade-like", you might try and scrape up space for root and usr on another disk - or a new one - and install and configure on that, mounting (and possibly symlinking) the old user data into place for testing. You'll want to install the compat2x option for this. After the new system is working to your satisfaction, copy it over the old one to free up the space again. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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