From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 19: 4:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.mikesweb.com (saturn.mikesweb.com [216.91.66.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D45537B5B9 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@mikesweb.com) Received: (qmail 97020 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2000 02:04:15 -0000 Received: from sun.mikesweb.com (216.91.66.69) by saturn.mikesweb.com with SMTP; 20 Jul 2000 02:04:15 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000719220414.00b482f0@mail.mikesweb.com> X-Sender: sturdee@mail.mikesweb.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:07:11 -0400 To: "Dan O'Connor" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Subject: Re: 2.2.x to 4.0 In-Reply-To: <01c301bff1e8$77485900$0200000a@danco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Acutally, when I asked the question, I was doing a few things at once and never even finished it... In the past I've moved my data from 2.2.x systems to 3.x boxes, I had problems with my binaries, as well as my apache password files made with htpasswd not matching up.. One of the password files has gotten quite large over time, and I don't have the passwords in plain text to convert.. Any suggestions there MIke At 05:40 PM 7/19/00 -0700, you wrote: > >What is the best way to upgrade a server from 2.2.6-RELEASE to 4.0-STABLE? > >It has a SCSI hdd, and I've read that the drive names go from sd to da > >after the 2's.. Any help is appreciated.. > >There was quite a big leap from 2.2.x to 3.0 and another, although not quite >as big, leap from 3.x to 4.0. > >I've heard one way is to upgrade to 3.5-STABLE, then upgrade again to >4.0-STABLE (soon to be 4.1). Rumour has it 2.2.x to 4.0 direct isn't >feasible. > >Personally, I'd back up all my data, make note of all my server configs, and >install 4.0 from scratch... > >--Dan > >-- >Dan O'Connor >On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com >FreeBSD Cheat Sheets > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message