From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 13:25:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25153 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from citytel1.citytel.net (root@citytel1.citytel.net [204.244.99.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25146 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (citytelprct48.citytel.net [204.244.99.124]) by citytel1.citytel.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17502 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:55:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to upgrade 2.2.5-R from 2.2.2-R? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) BACKUP /ETC, BACKUP /ETC, BACKUP /ETC. IT __WILL__ BE MODIFIED!!! > 2) Make and 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 and any you wish to add. > Don't forget that you can download the distributions to the local disk > and point sysinstall at them if you don't have a good network connection or > supported CD-ROM. > 3) Hit 'commit'. > 4) WHen you're dumped to a shell prompt: > . Edit rc.conf and re-config from scratch using your old one as > a guide. > . Migrate any changes you made to rc.local and other files noted > during the upgrade process. > 5) Reboot, recompile & reinstall your kernel, reboot again, and enjoy. I was thinking about upgradeing but what if you dont have the src installed? Would you ahve to re-install from scratch? Though I would lke to recompile a new kernal as Ive never done it before. Thanks.