From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 9:17:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C937014DF4 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA66735; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37BD7E46.302FFAEA@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:11:50 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0815 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mcwong@ascend.com Cc: Ben Smithurst , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe upgrade from 2.2.5 --> 3.2 ? References: <882567D2.00828B66.00@colton.ascend.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mcwong@ascend.com wrote: > > Ok, > > Let me get this correct then. The steps for me should then be: > > 1) get 2.2.8 src for my 2.2.5 system Read the make world tutorial at http://freebsd.org/tutorials/ > make world make a new kernel > reboot > > Are there any significant changes such as /etc/* stuff > in 2.2.8 that requires mergemaster when doing this > round of upgrade ? Yes. > 2) On 2.2.8, get 3.2 src and follow the instruction on the > web. > mergemaster > make upgrade > reboot > > Is that correct ? I will properly document all the steps > after my upgrade and should it be successful and send > it to the list for others. That's what my web page does. :) Of course, if you have any suggestions for improvements please send them, to me or the list, doesn't matter. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message