Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:00:25 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> To: "Ernest H. Rice" <ehr3@ehr3.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading... Message-ID: <20020827170025.A3712@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208271426.g7REQnT56905@ehr3.net>; from ehr3@ehr3.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:26:49AM -0400 References: <200208271426.g7REQnT56905@ehr3.net>
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:26:49AM -0400, Ernest H. Rice wrote: > Hello... > > Here is my uname output... > > FreeBSD fred.ehr3.net 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Thu May 23 > 16:59:31 EDT 2002 ehr3@fred.ehr3.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > I want to keep current on the STABLE RELEASE path, but also do not want > to disturb the files I have in user's directories, etc. > > Custom configuration is also a concern... > > Will I be able to upgrade the OS without having to reconfigure/lose > data? > > Is it intuitive how to do this? > > What version would you recommend? > > Thanks in advance for acommodating this basic question... > > Ernie Rice > First: there are two branches, -STABLE (RELENG_4) and -RELEASE (RELENG_4_6). Read the sections of the Handbook on compiling your own kernel (Chapter 9) and using CVSup (Appendix A). The Handbook is at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Configuration is saved; the 'mergemaster' command exists to help you merge in new changes. (It is generally a bad idea to let it touch your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group files, though.) Read the mergemaster(8) man page thoroughly before attempting to use it. And just in case it all explodes in a ball of flaming death, back up your data first. I'm going to leave the "which version" question up to others. -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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