On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote:
> > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1
> > without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are
> > unfortunately not an option).
> > I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this task
> > by altering sysinstall options, but this seems to only apply when
> > upgrading from less distant version numbers. Is it even possible to
> > upgrade to current from this ancient a version?
> >
>
> I'm not a total expert on this, but from my experience, "stepping" the
> system up is pretty reliable... Most of my systems started out at 2.1.5,
> and have been CVSup'd to either 3.x or 2.2.8 without any major hair loss.
> I would definitely suggest upping to 2.2.8 first -- it's a much easier
> transition than going directly to 3+. There's a problem I ran into with a
> change in the root device definition in /etc/fstab, but the mailing lists
> archives should describe the fix for this -- it's basically changing
> /dev/wd0a to /dev/wd0s1a (or something like that) if I remember correctly.
Yes.
> Once you get it up to a recent 2.x setup, start reading the docs about
> doing the 2->3 upgrade, while playing with your 2.2.8 system to make sure
> everything works.
>
> > (backups are unfortunately not an option).
> Hmmmmmmmm....... (frown)
>
> Question for the group: Is it possible to run a 2.2.8 kernel (temporarily)
> with a 2.1.5 binary installation tree? If it is, it'll be much smoother
> (and safer) upgrade for you....
No, not particularly. ps/top/friends will not work, and who knows what
else.
Doug White
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