From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 0:27:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from router.darlow.co.uk (pc1-bigg2-0-cust221.lut.cable.ntl.com [62.255.179.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD72F37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk (neil@ideal.darlow.co.uk [192.168.0.3]) by router.darlow.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5J7REM81645 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:27:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) From: Neil Darlow Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:27:14 GMT Message-ID: <20010619.7271400@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: Advice for an upgrader To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Hi, I am currently running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE with security patches and am looking to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3. Can I do an upgrade by CVS'ing the source tree and then performing a build world followed by reconciliation of /etc? The system I wish to upgrade is my cable firewall/router and has vinum'd drives so a complete re-install isn't what I'm looking for. Will a source-based upgrade of system and kernel take care of changes to the bootloader system (although the machine is configured as dangerously dedicated). Any advice and warnings of potential dangers will be gratefully received= . Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow Key fingerprint =3D 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message