Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:23:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.16 upgrade process... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961117212232.8140B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611170944.BAA00645@monk.via.net>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Joe McGuckin wrote: > Is there an easy upgrade from 2.1.5? Or do I have to reinstall everything? No. You can upgrade to 2.1.6 by following these now out-of-date instructions from 2.1.5. I have not seen anything from 2.1.6, I just found out a couple of hours ago that it was releaed. My note about XFree being old is not correct, DO upgrade XFree this time around. On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > I have three FBSD systems running on my network at this time. I would like > to get my Administrative system upgraded to v2.1.5 (The others are running > fine they will wait until v2). What is the best way to do this? I tried > the upgrade option from the boot disk and got a nice little warning message > that made me wonder if that was really the way. Yes. That is the way. Quick checklist (which I just wrote last message...): 1) BACKUP /ETC, BACKUP /ETC, BACKUP /ETC. IT __WILL__ BE HOSED!!! 2) Boot the new floppy. Select the 'update' option. Follow the prompts. Make sure you MOUNT your filesystems and not NEWFS them. Select the same distributions you did originally (but you can skip XFree86 if you installed it from 2.1.0 -- there are no changes) and any you wish to add. 3) Hit 'commit'. Take note of the modified files. 4) WHen you're dumped to a shell prompt: . Copy services back from your backup /etc. It's three lines long now :( . Edit sysconfig and re-config from scratch using your old one as a guide. It's changed a bunch this time around and it's too much pain to hack in the new changes. . Migrate any changes you made to rc.local. Note that httpd is no longer started from sysconfig. 5) Reboot, recompile & reinstall your kernel, reboot again, and enjoy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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