From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 12:33:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06422 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06416 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA49018; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:33:14 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id MAA12881; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:33:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading In-Reply-To: <19981013023149.59393@cpl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >If I do an "upgrade" with a 2.2.7 boot disk, is everything likely to go ok? >Backups are obviosly a wise idea, but I don't want to do this if its going >to involve much downtime. The system is running 2.2-Stable of unknown date.. >havent followed stable for probably a year, I think 2.2.5 was the latest >release at the time. I always wondered about upgrading. I have never tried using the boot disk to do an upgrade. What I did do was use CVSUP to do an upgrade. You can fetch source, make world, rebuild and install the kernel, and then reboot at an opportune time. If all goes well the downtime will be a few minutes during the reboot. I was leary the first time I did it, but it went without a hitch. The docs on the website are good. Before you use "upgrade" I recommend looking at CVS. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message