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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!worldnet.att.net!news.dra.com!news.he.net!nr1.scn.co.jp!news02.so-net.or.jp!news01.so-net.or.jp!sinfony-news01!tokyonet.ad.jp!post-tokyonet!tao!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> Subject: FreeBSD upgrade question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Reply-To: doug@inJapan.net Sender: usenet@inJapan.net (Charlie Root) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: inJapan Message-ID: <335E2C56.53BD@inJapan.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:35:59 GMT Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39584 I have loved using FreeBSD the last couple of years. Our two FreeBSD machines are the most stable in our office, which consists mostly of Macs and a few Windows 95 <shudder> machines. One of our machines is still running a DX2 with 16MB of RAM and 1GB HD and running FreeBSD 2.05. It has been faithfully providing DNS, mail, news and Radius password checking for our office with nary a complaint. Our newer machine is a Pentium 133MHz with 32MB of RAM and 1GB HD running FreeBSD 2.1. Right now it is only running secondary DNS and I have just put an Apache web server on it. My question is...should I upgrade to the latest versions of FreeBSD? If so, can such an upgrade be done without losing any of our current setup, or does such an upgrade require us first backing everything up, redoing the whole system and then restoring everything? Thanks, and sorry to bother everybody with such a basic question. Doug Lerner, Tokyo doug@inJapan.net