From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 24 15:50:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06995 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06986 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id SAA00842; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:54:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970424185437.00c1c390@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:54:37 -0400 To: Joachim.Wunder@lrz-muenchen.de, questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 2.1.7 -> 2.2.1 Upgrade - How? In-Reply-To: <335f6ec0.7676597@mailhost.lrz-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:44 PM 4/24/97 GMT, Joachim Wunder wrote: >Hi! > >Since I am soon going to upgrade my 2.1.7 system to 2.2.1: >Could someone please point me in the right directions so that I won't crash >anything in stupidness? =) As written by Doug White (dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White)... ------------ FreeBSD Upgrade Checklist for 2.2: 1) Boot the new floppy. Select the 'update' option. Follow the prompts. Make sure you MOUNT your filesystems and not NEWFS them. Select the same distributions you did originally (including the kernel source, src/ssys!) and any you wish to add. 2) Hit 'commit' to start the upgrade. 3) When you're dumped to a shell prompt: . Your /etc directory is preserved as it was for 2.1.x. You will want to look in /etc/upgrade, which contains new & updated files for this release. . Using your old sysconfig as a guide, create a new sysconfig using the one in /etc/upgrade as a template. . Copy over the rc* files from upgrade/, so new features in sysconfig are used. Merge in any local changes, if necessary. If you are getting unusual messages from ipx, you forgot to do this. . Migrate other files as necessary. 5) Reboot, recompile & reinstall your kernel, reboot again, and enjoy. --------------------------- You should also check out http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter.html For the news groups, enter in comp.unix.bsd.free*,muc.lists.freebsd* For the terms, enter in 2.2* upgrade 2.1* and you will get a slew of pointers.... ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *