From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 2:54:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6E737B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7048743E4A for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15799.49999.461488.870873@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:54:23 -0400 To: "W. D." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021023215832.047e51c0@us-webmasters.com> References: <15799.20287.620654.923723@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20021023215832.047e51c0@us-webmasters.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid From: Dan Pelleg Reply-To: Dan Pelleg Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W. D. writes: > At 20:39 10/23/2002, Dan Pelleg, wrote: > >FreeBSD systems are easy to maintain. You can do a source upgrade, > >or a binary upgrade, and the system will go through it and boot > >to the new version without a hitch. On one system I have I've gone from > >FreeBSD 4.1 to 4.7, including every release in between, without ever > >touching the console. When a major version comes out, I typically > >upgrade 10 systems in multiple locations, all within half a day > >without leaving my office. > > Pray tell, how do you do this? > 1. cvsup to update the system sources. 2. look at /usr/src/UPDATING and follow instructions. (do not forget the mergemaster step!). The "drop to single user mode" step can be skipped, at your own risk, which my experience proves to be acceptable when the machine is not too busy. Read all about it in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html (do not be alarmed by the name - the same method is used for the security patches, as well as going from one release to the next, so it's as stable as anything you get on a CD-ROM; of course you can use this method to track -STABLE, which may occasionally not be, and rebuild your kernel and world nightly; whatever suits your needs). -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message