From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 13:23:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC79516A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 13:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postman.inteliport.com (postman.inteliport.com [208.27.31.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E3343D7C for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 13:23:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colane@inteliport.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (ip39.inteliport.net [208.27.31.39]) by postman.inteliport.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j4ADP8X06390 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 09:25:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4280B5B8.3050509@inteliport.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:23:04 -0400 From: Christopher Lane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1115722483.428092f347b03@mail.schtriker.net> In-Reply-To: <1115722483.428092f347b03@mail.schtriker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: How to upgrade FreeBSD release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:23:08 -0000 Simon Striker wrote: > Hi! > > I am pretty newby to FreeBSD and I have one question. I have some Linux > (Slackware) servers and I intend to reinstall them with FreeBSD. > > When I will have to upgrade something on them, I will do that with portupgrade. > But when yesterday FreeBSD 5.4 released I wondered how could I upgrade to newer > release? > > If for instance one day I will administrate 30 servers, will I have to reinstall > them all with new release or is there any other way to upgrade to newer release? > > I would like to hear about your experiences with server administration. > > Thanks in advance for any response or piece of advice! > > Best regards, > > Simon Reinstall is not necessary. In short, get the 5.4 release source somehow (cvsup, for example), and build/install new system binaries and kernel. Freebsd handbook section 19 details the upgrade process pretty well - start reading there. If this is your first upgrade, I don't have to tell you to try it on a non production box first ^_^ As far as doing 30 or more servers, I've never done it so this is a bit of speculation. Look into using nfs or setting up a local cvsup server for distributing the source. The archives might have more information on this subject. Chris