Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:39:18 +0200 (CEST) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: <rshea@opendoor.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to do a no-brainer 4.3 upgrade? Message-ID: <20010911162426.D401-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <3B9E5CEC.17060.388460B8@localhost>
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:50:20 +1200 > From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: How to do a no-brainer 4.3 upgrade? > > > > > > > > > I've been running 3.2 for a long time and I'd like to upgrade to 4.3 > > > > so would i > > > > What is the most simple, no-brainer way for me to do this? Needless > > > to say I've already installed a lot of software on top of 3.2 > > > (Apache, mysql, postgres, all kinds of Perl modules, etc.) and I > > > don't want to have to reinstall everything. > > fetch the 4.3 installation floppies (you will need two of > > them now) kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and boot them. > > Select UPGRADE and start upgrading the bin, man and all the > > compat distributions. > > > Couple of questions - maybe obvious to some, if so apologies. > > 1. Sorry to ask you repeat yourself but is it really the case that all apps > (I've got a similar set to the original poster) will survive this process > unscathed ? Of course there will be no guarantee. But when you start UPGRADE a long message will explain, what might happen and where to find the old kernel, so you can boot into the old system if anything goes wrong. > 2. I take it you're assuming the presence of a network > connection to suck the release via ftp ? Will the > network connection stay alive throughout the process ? > If I'd prefer to do it via a CD is there any significant > difference ? No, you can select any of the usual installation media: CD-ROM, ftp, DOS-partition, network ... Uli. *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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