Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:40:14 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3 Message-ID: <15196.39358.741954.628565@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <40440550@toto.iv>
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Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> types: > 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. Sysinstall includes a "upgrade an existing system" option. That won't upgrade the configuration files, but puts the new ones in /etc/upgrade. The upgrade option won't let you install source - or wouldn't last time I tried it. If you want to do that, remove the old source first. If you do install the new source, I'd recommend mergemaster instead of using the /etc/upgrade files. Upgrading doesn't clean out old files, which can be a problem. Especially if the old files are config files, as you may wind up trying to change something using a file that is no longer used by the system. Because of that, the best upgrade path is to do a clean install and restore the config files by hand. With good admin practices, the restore should be straightforward. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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