From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 15:19: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A57737B408 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 24475 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Jul 2001 22:19:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:19:00 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3 Message-ID: <20010722151900.E23372@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010722221048.7981.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010722221048.7981.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com>; from "wayneclubin@yahoo.com" on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at = 03:10:48PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > How does one upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and keep all > config files and all installed ports etc... Or is the > only way to do this simply to install 4.3 from scratch > and thus loose everything done with 4.2. I have looked > in the documentation but can't seem to find a > definitive answer to this question. Thanks in advance > for your help. Check out chapter 20 in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ You'll want to track -stable, not -current. ;~) -sc PS Make sure you read the part about mergemaster if you're interested in preserving your config files. --=20 Sean Chittenden --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjtbUVMACgkQn09c7x7d+q0d8gCg0xMYrL/RBt+Ni9ZaIsMEGJ4x lBkAmwUj1WkLnOWggTqXTB0WEANF0o8y =cDtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message