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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!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-was.dfn.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hard Disk Maintenance Date: 21 Apr 1997 20:16:21 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.2.1), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 41 Message-ID: <slrn5lniol.qoo.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <5j8r78$r4l$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <slrn5lkdmq.o9p.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <5jf7bd$c9a$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39614 haggis@cesium.com (John R. Haggis): > Is there a migration guide or some such thing? Is there a way to > install over a given installation so you don't obliterate things like > source directories and installed files? Or would I have to back up on > disk and tape and reinstall apps and config files? There happens to be an upgrade option to the installation utility. If you do have a backup at hand, I'd even give that one a try. As I wanted to set up the 2.2.1 system as cleanly as possible I just installed it from scratch on the new disk. Actually I could just have dump/restored the previously running 2.1.0 system on it and tried the upgrade option as well. The old disk would have been a sufficient backup anyway... > Is the Sendmail config file the same? Sort of, yes. I run my existing sitename.mc through the m4 on the new setup and had some minor trouble with the generated sendmail.cf but in retrospect it seemed to be a configuration mistake on the old version in the first place that just didn't happen to be triggered by the old system. > I run a web site with two or three dozen clients, so I can't just rip > up the software at my whim. I run Apache web server, Sendmail, POP > mail, Majordomo, wwwstats, ghostscript, BIND, etc. Due to the delays on the CD-ROM from Walnut Creek I grabbed the whole thing from my nearest ftp archive and burnt it myself. This gave me some losses in its way but the system itself is just fine. On my CD-R there are some defunct packages though and installing packages with sysinstall doesn't work. Repeat: This is the case for *my* CD-R only. I expect the WC-release to be readily available when I return from my trip to the UK next month. Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)