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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: How to do a no-brainer 4.3 upgrade?
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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.
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