From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 09:53:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22764 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22756 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA02819 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:46:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrade to 2.1.5 or 2.2-SNAP? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My 2.1-STABLE (as of late April) should probably be upgraded because trying to port tcl/tk caused the kernel to core dump. The options seem to be: a) using sup/make world for either 2.1.5 or 2.2-SNAP; b) getting the boot.flp for one of these and "upgrading" using ftp (faster, but I'm not sure what an "upgrade" does); c) buying the cdrom for either of these and upgrading. Is backing up /etc the only essential protection one needs? Is there any reason for 2.1.5 instead of the 2.2 June 12 SNAP? For example, will the various packages/ports from 2.1 continue to work? Thanks-- Annelise