From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 12:21:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF2A16A41F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4068943D55 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:21:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58CLNLW020984; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:21:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42A6E2AC.9080300@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 07:21:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sydoh@fidalgo.net References: <000001c56bdd$58f5b7d0$24ce3442@huffakerw0m4f2> In-Reply-To: <000001c56bdd$58f5b7d0$24ce3442@huffakerw0m4f2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/921/Wed Jun 8 03:51:44 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:21:27 -0000 Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote: > Hello, > Wonder if you can give me a little advise. [..snip..] > I am going to try this tomorrow morning and wondered if you might have some > good advise. > > I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by Michael > Urban and Brian Tieman. I also have the absolute BSD by Michael Lucas. Well, it's hard to say what the right path would be for you. I think if it were me, and I had tarred up all the files, I would install the most recent FreeBSD version I can (5.4 in this case), install all the necessary ports (/usr/ports/*), and then copy the data back from the 'backup' drive (you created when you did all the tars) onto the newly installed system in the right places. If you are totally new to FreeBSD, the Handbook is your best friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------