Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 09:07:29 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com, scsi@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec EISA twin SCSI? Message-ID: <199610071607.AA002654450@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 1996 06:55:22 PDT." <199610071355.GAA27757@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> >Only because some of the docs (I forget whether it was in one of the FAQs
> >or in the Handbook) said so. They said there was currently no good way
> >of doing an automatic upgrade, and that the manual process was painful
> >and could cause you to lose things. If there's a way around it,
> >I just need to know what it is....
>
> Its called, "cd /usr/src; make world". Since you are already running
> 2.1.5R, this will work just fine for you. Nothing has changed in /etc
> since the release of 2.1.5R on the "stable" branch.
I think the FAQ and/or Handbook are referring to upgrading FreeBSD
via the precompiled binaries (and not via "make world"). With this
method, sysinstall does greatly munge /etc, and I believe this is where
the FAQ/handbook says that the manual process is "painful". You
certainly could lose things if you are not careful. Basically, /etc
gets backed up, and then all of the major files in /etc get blown away
and replaced with "new" ones. You then have to go to the backup /etc
and hand-merge your changes into the new /etc.
Not pretty, but it works.
-- Darryl ("Been there, done that") Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
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little green men that have been following him all day.
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