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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
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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