Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:26:48 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "<Ajith Asela Pasqual.>" <pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 2.2.1 CD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970530142208.23570A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199705301103.UAA25495@hitomi.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, <Ajith Asela Pasqual.> wrote: > > Hi!, > > (Pleases cc to me any response as I've not subscribed to this list) > > I need to upgrade my FreeBSD box 2.1.7 to 2.2.1 from CD (Walnut Creek). This > is an off line machine. > > How reliable is the upgrade using sysinstall ? I've searched mail archives > but couldn't find any hints on this. Also nothing on handbook on > upgrading. (hopefully I've not missed it) Perhaps the right time to include > something about upgrading the OS :-) #include <std_disclaimer.h> The upgrade is pretty reliable, with the slight exception of /etc. What you should probably do is backup /etc (better yet, the whole machine), do the upgrade, and then merge the changes with the new files in /etc. If you'll install compat_21 (and every other distribution thing you've installed in 2.1.7) you'll have a workable system quite fast. Note that some people (including myself) had a problem with ld.so when installing 2.2.1 (the symptoms are that xdm does not find some of its shared libraries). The solution is to build it from source (it's in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld). That's the only problem I had when upgrading 2.1.7 to 2.2.1. One more thing: 2.2.2 should be much more reliable. If possible, upgrade to it (or to a STABLE snapshot). This release addresses many of the bugs 2.2.1 had such as the ahc driver problem. > > Also I've seen many reports of problems from those who have upgraded to > 2.2.1. How significant are those those problems ? I've not had ANY problems > with 2.1.7 sofar. > > I've installed many programs on this system and do not want a complete > reinstallation. The machine is used for research purposes. > > Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. > > > Regards, > Ajith. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ajith Pasqual - Hatori-Aizawa Lab., Dept of Info. & Comm. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo. > Email:pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (WWW)http://www.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~pasqual/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Nadav
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