How to upgrade FreeBSD release
Christopher Lane
colane at inteliport.com
Tue May 10 06:23:08 PDT 2005
Simon Striker wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am pretty newby to FreeBSD and I have one question. I have some Linux
> (Slackware) servers and I intend to reinstall them with FreeBSD.
>
> When I will have to upgrade something on them, I will do that with portupgrade.
> But when yesterday FreeBSD 5.4 released I wondered how could I upgrade to newer
> release?
>
> If for instance one day I will administrate 30 servers, will I have to reinstall
> them all with new release or is there any other way to upgrade to newer release?
>
> I would like to hear about your experiences with server administration.
>
> Thanks in advance for any response or piece of advice!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Simon
Reinstall is not necessary. In short, get the 5.4 release source
somehow (cvsup, for example), and build/install new system binaries and
kernel. Freebsd handbook section 19 details the upgrade process pretty
well - start reading there. If this is your first upgrade, I don't have
to tell you to try it on a non production box first ^_^
As far as doing 30 or more servers, I've never done it so this is a bit
of speculation. Look into using nfs or setting up a local cvsup server
for distributing the source. The archives might have more information
on this subject.
Chris
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