Hi!
I am pretty newby to FreeBSD and I have one question. I have some Linux (Slackware) servers and I intend to reinstall them with FreeBSD.
When I will have to upgrade something on them, I will do that with portupgrade. But when yesterday FreeBSD 5.4 released I wondered how could I upgrade to newer release?
If for instance one day I will administrate 30 servers, will I have to reinstall them all with new release or is there any other way to upgrade to newer release?
I would like to hear about your experiences with server administration.
Thanks in advance for any response or piece of advice!
Best regards,
Simon
Reinstall is not necessary. In short, get the 5.4 release source somehow (cvsup, for example), and build/install new system binaries and kernel. Freebsd handbook section 19 details the upgrade process pretty well - start reading there. If this is your first upgrade, I don't have to tell you to try it on a non production box first ^_^
As far as doing 30 or more servers, I've never done it so this is a bit of speculation. Look into using nfs or setting up a local cvsup server for distributing the source. The archives might have more information on this subject.
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