From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 14:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.airmail.net (mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA25125 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dallas.tx@airmail.net) Received: from 2000.iadfw.net from [206.66.13.193] by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.255) with smtp for sender: id ; Tue, 13 Oct 98 16:11:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: X-Sender: david@mail.davidv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:18:48 -0500 To: "Jason C. Wells" From: "David L. Vondrasek" Subject: Re: upgrading Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <19981013023149.59393@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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. Do you have a step by step to do a CVS upgrade ? I have had 2.2.6 cough 2 times trying to upgrade to 2.2.7. I don't want to risk the server a 3rd. David L. Vondrasek http://www.davidv.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message