Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:48:53 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.4 Message-ID: <20011015154852.D4944@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011015143523.11638F-100000@isua5.iastate.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011015143523.11638F-100000@isua5.iastate.edu>
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On 10/15/01 02:37 PM, legg@iastate.edu sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE, and I hear a much more secure > FreeBSD 4.4 has been released. > > I think it would be a good idea to upgrade, but is that easy to do (or > even possible)? > > Would I have to get somebody to download the ISO's for me and reinstall or > is there some program that can manage it for me? > > I have heard talk about CVSup, but I just want to upgrade, not join a > development team or anything. You don't have to be a developer to use cvsup. Just cvsup to RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE, then use the following: cd /usr/src make buildworld && make install Which will upgrade your userland. Once this is done, you should do this: mergemaster -ia which will merge config/startup/etc. files from the upgraded source to the installed versions. Then reboot. Next, you will want to rebuild your kernel. If you have a custom kernel, use that, otherwise use GENERIC. cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNEL=GENERIC && make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC Of course if you do use GENERIC, you can leave out the KERNEL parameters. Once this is done, reboot. Now, you are running 4.4 release. And not one line of code had to be touched :) HTH Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Gray's Law of Programming: `n+1' trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same time as `n' tasks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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