From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 19:30: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAA0F37B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10617 invoked by uid 100); 24 Jul 2001 02:29:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15196.56742.730697.527948@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:29:58 -0500 To: John Fox Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question re: binary upgrade In-Reply-To: <121106977@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 John Fox types: > Howdy. > > I've got a server running 2.2.2-RELEASE, and the darned thing needs > to be updated to 4.3-RELEASE. I know that if I were going to > perform this upgrade from source I'd have to go in stages, from > release to stable, stable to release, etc., until ending at the > final version. > > However, we're planning on a binary upgrade, and I'm thinking (and > hoping!) that this will allow the upgrade to take place in one big > jump, rather than several small ones. > > I'd appreciate hearing about the accuracies of this guess, and any > other information deemed relevant by the knowledgeable. I would *seriously* recommend doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. The difference is that the upgrade won't delete old, unused files - including your old configuration files. For normal upgrades (4.1->4.2, etc) their aren't a lot of old files and keeping the configuration files is convenient. In going from 2.2.2, many of the old configuration files aren't used any more, so there's not much point in leaving them around. And leaving all the other old files around is asking for problems. If you want it to look "upgrade-like", you might try and scrape up space for root and usr on another disk - or a new one - and install and configure on that, mounting (and possibly symlinking) the old user data into place for testing. You'll want to install the compat2x option for this. After the new system is working to your satisfaction, copy it over the old one to free up the space again. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message