Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:31:38 -0700 From: Rod Ebrahimi <info@pagecreators.com> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade Message-ID: <345024A9.78F0254D@pagecreators.com> References: <199710231755.KAA16764@japonica.csl.sri.com>
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Thank you... Also is there any fix files that can fix some of the
problems fixed from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 stability without doing a full
upgrade?
Thank you,
Rod
Fred Gilham wrote:
> You wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
> I have read the install notes and still am unclear on the best
> method of upgrading from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 with little change of our
> source
> configuration. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> ----------------------------------------
>
> What I do is to get just the source, install it, and do a `make world'
>
> in /usr/src. I can do this on a system that's in service. It takes
> about 4 hours on a P-166. Once this finishes, I re-make the kernel
> with our kernel configuration file (I've set it up so I use the same
> one on all our machines) and reboot and I'm up with an upgraded
> system. I just did this yesterday on one of our systems.
>
> Once this is known to work, you can remote-mount the /usr/src and
> /usr/obj file systems on different machines and do `make reinstall' on
>
> those machines. That way you only have to compile once.
>
> I've been upgrading this way for a long time and it seems the most
> transparent to me. The only problem I have is when they add new files
>
> to /etc (such as login.conf) or change the group file or something. I
>
> have to fix this stuff by hand.
>
> -Fred
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