From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 30 01:20:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04814 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04807 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.double-barrel.be (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07115; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:20:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be(194.7.102.18) via SMTP by mail.double-barrel.be, id smtpdyz7113; Sat Jan 30 10:20:32 1999 Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ns.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA02324; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:20:26 +0100 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:20:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Michael Robinson cc: akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When to transition to 3.0-STABLE.. NOT NOW! In-Reply-To: <199901300546.NAA00554@netrinsics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know the fealing, What I tend to do myself, is each time the new relaese comes out is use a cheap ide disc, and dd my current version on it, make shure it boots correctly. then I proceed with the upgrade. So in case something goes wrong, I'm not the one who is stuck and end up with a system that is unusable. Michael Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Michael Robinson wrote: > Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: > >Anyway hopefully this will help the adventurous or the cursed, and > >hopefully help out the upgrade team at least a little. > > Two more bits of advice: > > If you find yourself stuck halfway through the upgrade and need to reboot > your old kernel for some reason, remember, the live filesystem on the > 2.2.[678] CD-ROMs is your very good friend. Before you try to upgrade, > I recommend copying the a.out "mount_cd9660" program to a safe place on the > root partition. That way you can still mount the old binaries, libraries, > etc., if your installation barfs. (You say you didn't buy the CD-ROMs? > Shame on you!) > > Also, the new named and pccardd do not like the config files from the old > named and pccardd. Updates need to be done by hand. > > -Michael Robinson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message