From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 19:32:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A7337B400 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss11232 (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1655D155B for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:32:43 +1300 (NZDT) From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:31:37 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Too difficult for you ? (was : Upgrade 3.4 -> 4.4) Message-ID: <3C3DC1E9.9668.4D7D8C@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 - Well I got zero replies from this one yesterday. I guess it was either too easy or too difficult - I wonder which ? I can't find anything in the Handbook or in 'Complete FreeBSD' which discusses this situation - am I missing something obvious ? Seems like a situation a lot of people must have been through ... Once again then ... > Hi - I've got a 3.4 machine I want to upgrade to 4.4. I've got the 4 > CD's ready to go and I suspect that if I just stuffed the install CD > in I would get told what to do but this machine is rather important to > me so ... can anyone explain what's going to happen if I try to > upgrade 3.4 to 4.4. > > In particular : > > 1. what's going to happen to the existing installations of : > > Apache/PHP > MySQL > Samba > NATD > IPFW > Perl > > I'm hoping that they will be effectively untouched (with the possible > exception of IPFW - see question 2) is that correct ? > > 2. I recompiled the Kernel to support running IPFW after the initial > installation was done. Am I going to have to redo that or is there > some option I can take during the install to achieve the same effect ? > > 3. What's going to happen to users/groups etc ? > > 4. Are config files such as inetd.conf going to get overwritten ? regards richard shea. ***************************************************** Open Door Ltd PO Box 119-46 Wellington, NZ PH +64 4 384 7639 FX +64 4 384 7672 ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message