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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbreeder.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.charm.net!news.fred.net!not-for-mail From: mcurry@fred.net ( ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2..1.5-RELEASE ---------->2.2-GAMMA How to? Date: 20 Feb 1997 15:38:21 GMT Organization: FredNet - Frederick, Md. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5ehr5d$m9@news.fred.net> References: <33079A2D.204D@bluep.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigdog.fred.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35857 We have done it two ways: 1. by following the upgrade option of the /stand/sysinstall and 2. by creating a new filesystem on another hard-drive, then transferring directories, etc. 1. The upgrade worked fine, as far as we can tell, but it WAS a scary situation. It's a small system with few users -- I'd be sweating bullets doing that on a 600-user system. 2. In the second case, we had to change out the boot drive, so we installed the 2.2-GAMMA on the new drive, mounted the original filesystem und /mnt, and cp-ed the /usr/home directories, hosts file, rc.local and other network and config-related files. After copying the passwd and master.passwd files, ran vipw and saved. One big mistake was cp-ing the /home directories as root. Had to spend two hours fixing permissions...but you are now the only other person on earth who knows about it. ;-) mc Sam Hadzajlic (samh@bluep.com) wrote: : Please does any one know safe way to update my : 2.1.5 to 2.2-GAMMA .Server have about 600 users and I need : tested procedure. : Thank's : : S. Hadzajlic samh@bluep.com