From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 8:20:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.venon.com (ns1.venon.com [64.7.7.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F2E37B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from megalomaniac.biosys.net (megalomaniac.venon.com [64.7.7.82]) by ns1.venon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2126DD147F for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000825112319.00b4e198@wheresmymailserver.com> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:23:30 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Allen Landsidel Subject: Re: Upgrading 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 At 10:45 08/25/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have a question on upgrading Freebsd. I tried it once in vain and had >to reinstall everything. > >I am running FreeBSD3.2 w/PAO3.2 on a laptop. My first question is can I >upgrade to 4.0 without upgrading PAO (PAO page says that >there will no 4.0 PAO!) or upgrading latest PAO (3.5): will that affect >the system? > >My second question is if anyone has tried to use the /stand/sysinstall >method of upgrade - I tried that and all hell broke loose >(luckily I had backups). So I reinstalled the OS from scratch, this time >with 3.3R and PAO3.3 but 1) NFS programs hung on >rcp.statd 2) Openssh2 does not work and Openssh1.2.1 was not available so >I restored all partitions from my backup, thereby putting >the system back to the original state. > >Could someone please tell me what needs to be done to upgrade (with PAO in >mind)? PAO was integrated into 4.x I believe, which is why there is no PAO distribution for those versions of FreeBSD. You should not need it to get all of your laptop stuff working. That said, I am still running 3.4-R + PAO on my laptop because installing 4.X panics on the 2nd disk.. thankfully the install failed before I get the chance to do a newfs or anything like that, so going back was as simple as taking the floppy out and rebooting. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message