Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 04:46:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: daverk@epix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.4 to 4.5? Message-ID: <3C5E8291.5050709@owt.com> References: <20020204103648.31275.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <3C5E68EE.9000902@owt.com> <200202041127.g14BRSvv016309@bean.epix.net>
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Dave Kaufman wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2002 05:56 am, you wrote: > >>Bsd Neophyte wrote: >> >>>Is it possible to do an upgrade w/o doing a reinstall? >>> >>>Would I simply update my ports and then do a "make install"... or is >>>there another way? >>> >>>OR... if someone can point me to a URL that gives the step-by-step >>>instructions... that would also help. >>> >>The ports and the OS version aren't coupled. That is why you cvsup >>"tag=." for the ports. The instructions for upgrading FreeBSD from 4.4 >> >> > 4.5 are already on your system. You will find them around line >> >>349+/- in /usr/src/UPDATING. >> >>Kent >> > > i don't find UPDATING in /usr/src/ all i find are crypto, kerberos5, > kerberosIV, secure and sys. did i not install something? You have to install the sources before you can upgrade to something. When you installed, you didn't choose to do that. That is how UPDATING gets added to your /usr/src directory. There is some stuff in the Handbook about setting up your install. I was looking at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html You have to add the source for the system and the kernel before you can upgrade. This all goes into /usr/src. There were some tutorials for newbies but they have been rearranging the setup and I don't have any idea where they were moved to. You also need to specialize your kernel as a final step. The question is which small step you want to take first. Based on what you have said, you have some reading and downloading to do first. You can cvsup and add everything but if you have a CD with the sources on it, you can add your current version from the CD. It is much faster to upgrade that with cvsup than it is to install the source with cvsup. If your connection to the Internet was a T1, it wouldn't matter. Since you are on 4.4, I would expect that you only have a version of cvsup-16.1 available that has the 9 Sep 2001 bug in it. You need at least 16.1e for starters. Version 16.1d doesn't have the bug but 16.1e will not let you connect to a server running a buggy version. I don't know of any but I wouldn't start out taking a chance. I think a more recent version will be on the 4.5 CD. You can download a copy of it from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ and pkg_add cvsup-16.1e.tgz There are mirrors out there that have the 4.5-iso on it. An binary upgrade using that for the source is the easiest. I started downloading it today and filled up root. It was telling me the download time was 3 hrs. I did it with a modem about 1.5 years back and I believe it was a 40 hour download. A T1 would be less than an hour to download a 650 MB CDROM image file. It won't be too long until the sun comes up and by then I will have shutdown. Good luck on the upgrade. It isn't difficult. You just have to be methodical and follow a cook book. A discusion of some of this is available on http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/. I have a system upgrade down to running 5 really simple shell scripts. So, it can't be very complicated. Running mergemaster is where you can shoot yourself in the foot. When it comes time to be safe, everybody recursively copies /etc into a /etc.bak or some name you can remember. Recovering is easier that way :). I have 3 or 4 different setups and I will screw one of them up in the time frame of 6-12 months. I have copies on the other machines and don't always do the backup. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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