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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:31:15 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any pointers for crossing the line from 2.2.8 to 3.3?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111630340.48423-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <382AEE4C.9341EEC0@summersault.com>

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You'll of course need to go through /etc and compare and update any
changes.  This is something i have seen mentioned many times.  Some people
do it manually, others use mergemaster.


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Mark Stosberg wrote:

>
>This weekend we are upgrading our FreeBSD server for our hosting firm
>from 2.2.8 to 3.3 and looking for the most painless way to do this. I've
>assembled some basic notes on the procedure based some documention I
>found on the net (my notes are below). Are they any other pointers I
>should know about? Thanks.
>
>key upgrade stuff:
>
>  1. Back everything up.
>  2. Repeat step 1.
>  3. Copy new source tree from CD into /usr/src/sys
>  3.5 make kernel tweaks as needed
>  4. "make upgrade". 
>  5. reboot.
>  6. use /stand/sysinstall to install compat22
>
>Is that guts of it? If you have tips or pointers to a reference on this,
>that would be appreciated.
>Thanks much,
>
>   -mark
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