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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!sun3.iaf.nl!gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl!geert From: geert@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: upgrading to FreeBSD 2.2.x (Was: Hard Disk Maintenance) Date: 21 Apr 1997 08:12:53 GMT Organization: La Calandre Infortunee Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5jf7i5$e5v$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl> References: <5j8r78$r4l$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <slrn5lkdmq.o9p.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39460 H. Eckert (ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de) wrote: I'd recommend setting up 2.2.1-Release on the new disk from scratch and migrating the local configuration and datafiles. While this will be more work than a simple dump/restore of all filesystems, it will certainly be worth it to get the new features that 2.1.x doesn't have. Hmmm... a few weeks ago I got my FreeBSD 2.1.6 CD from Walnut Creek and somehow I get the impression that I have a very outdated version. Today I will get an ISDN connection and I wonder whether it is possible to get my Teles 16.3 card to work with this version of FreeBSD. I've heard that bisdn version 0.97u also supports PPP over ISDN, which my ISP uses. In case I need to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.1, can I just update the kernel or are many user-land programs dependent on the kernel version? The reason I ask this is that I don't like downloading the full FreeBSD 2.2.1 release from the net when I have a CD-ROM subscription. Thanks in advance for any answers. Regards, Geert