From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 11:55:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3C737B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38E743E77 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28351; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:55:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3D5E9C07.8040803@owt.com> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:55:03 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: injoin@injoin.cjb.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating from 4.1.1 to 4.6.2 References: <1029608606.68086.injoin@mail2000.com.tw> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 injoin wrote: > I'm going to update my system from release 4.1.1 to release 4.6.2. Something may bite you going that far but if you follow /usr/src/UPDATING you will have a better chance than if you don't. With 4.1.1, you have made it past the /binutils upgrade and there has been at least one upgrade talked about for RELENG_4_6. I don't follow releases and I think you will be better off following something that has corrections such as RELENG_4_6. > > Expect for the user home directorys, what I should backup? /etc because you want a copy of your current configuration. > Shoud I modify my original kernel config file? It has changed with time. I think you should do a new one. A lot of the network cards now depend on miibus. You have to pay attention to the needs. For example, USB's umass depends on scbus and da. You have to pay attention. There must be at least a message day from people that didn't pay attention. Kent > Please give me some suggestions. > Thanks. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message