From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 12:36:03 2003 Return-Path: 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 4FC8016A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:36:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.doruk.net.tr (smtp.doruk.net.tr [212.58.5.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DD243D35 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:35:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vahric@doruk.net.tr) Received: from VAHOXP (vahric.doruk.net.tr [212.58.13.17]) by smtp.doruk.net.tr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBFKqmfl027766 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:52:48 +0200 From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" To: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:34:45 +0200 Message-ID: <0a9d01c3c34a$e035bc00$110d3ad4@VAHOXP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: Upgreading Servers From 4.9 to 5.x ,Changing Server and BootProblem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:36:03 -0000 Hi Everybody , First I want to learn Which method are you using When you want to pass between version For example 3.x to 4.x or 4.x to 5.x . Are you installing new version to new machine then copy all files ?! My second question is ; in FreeBSD package management is very good . All ports are installed in /usr/local ... at this moment When I need to change server at this moment does it enough to copy all /usr/local directory to the new server ( of course all data , same kernel configuration on new machine and same /etc/rc.conf file .. ) Does it work ? Anybody have any experience about this ? And I wondering What do you do when boot problem like loader , kernel and kernel.old too ... How do you open OS ? Because in Linux We can create a disk with mkbootdisk command at this moment We have a same kernel and startup things in diskette ?!! Vahric