From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 9: 3:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx194-mta.mail.com (rmx194-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AA037B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from weba4.iname.net (weba4.iname.net [165.251.4.14]) by rmx194-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20372; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:03:17 -0500 (EST) From: thursday@altavista.net Received: (from root@localhost) by weba4.iname.net (8.9.1a/8.9.2.Alpha2) id MAA16360; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:03:15 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <001122120315J3.25320@weba4.iname.net> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:03:15 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best upgrade path? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE machine which I'm considering upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE. I'm wondering what the best upgrade path is: whether to use the "Upgrade" method provided in /stand/sysinstall, or whether to wipe out the hard drive and do a completely fresh install from scratch. I've never used sysinstall's upgrade mechanism, so I'd be curious to hear others' experiences with it. Is there any documentation on it aside from the text file you're presented with before starting the upgrade? I think I'd like to do whatever would result in the least downtime for the machine (it does virtual hosting for a bunch of my friends' domains) and the least time for me reconfiguring services such as httpd, sendmail samba, natd and my firewall. My concern about using sysinstall's upgrade utility is that I might run into trouble upgrading exisitng installed packages. Is there an automated tool for upgrading installed ports/packages? Thank you, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message