On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:36:09AM -0800, Mike Harding wrote:
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> Having done this before I would HIGHLY recommend doing a clean install
> and restoring the 'good stuff' from backup. You can do the upgrades
> in place, but it takes a while, and you have to do it in steps, and if
> you misstep you may blow up the box, and so on. You should know how
> to do clean installs and backups anyways. Since you have 2 machines,
> assuming sufficient clear disk space on each, you can back one up onto
> the other and so on.
Some time ago, Ralf S. Engelschall posted a description about
upgradeing a bunch of 3.5-STABLE boxes to 4.1.1-STABLE:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=699499+0+archive/2000/freebsd-stable/20000806.freebsd-stable
/Michael
>
> - Mike H.
>
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> I have been tracking this list for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and I have =
> learned alot more about FreeBSD then I thought I might. I have =
> successfully upgrade my two home FreeBSD machines from 4.2 REL to the =
> current stable version, and everything went just fine. However, I now =
> need to upgrade 2 production machines for my employer, and these have to =
> go as painlessly as possible. The problem is that these machines are =
> 3.4 REL. I have looked through the mail over the past weeks, and I have =
> found people mention that 3.4 to 4 can have some gotcha's associated =
> with it, but I haven't seen anything specifically mentioned. Are there =
> things that I need to watch out for? The reference that I am referring =
> to was a thread regarding remotely updating servers. While this was =
> frowned upon by almost everyone in the list, one person specifically =
> mentioned that remote updating would be a problem from a 3.x to a 4.x. =
> I don't plan to do any remote updating, but I want to be sure there =
> aren't other things I need to watch out for.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Chris Schremser
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> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks a bunch.</FONT></DIV>
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