Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:51:40 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any problem going from 9.x (don't laugh) to 11 directly? Message-ID: <37591333-593e-7c35-0cfb-a3ab02bddf55@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <86lgfvi20e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <86lgfvjk6c.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <7F0B2921-9F04-4E15-BD0F-17A0EA8E953B@mail.sermon-archive.info> <86lgfvi20e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On 02/14/2018 05:29 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Doug> There are enough library changes that most services just will not > Doug> start properly and tend to hang. You are left with a system that > Doug> is non-responsive. The one approach I used successfully one time > Doug> was to comment virtually everything other than sshd out in > Doug> rc.conf. You have to make sure you have really killed sendmail > Doug> though. Setting it to NO is not enough. Otherwise it will > Doug> eventually give up and give you back service, but it takes a long > Doug> time. > > Great advice! Thanks. > Another strategy might be to put a second drive in the system and install a clean version of 11 and all the needed packages/ports on that. Then - since it can mount your existing 9.x disk, incrementally copy over your data and custom configurations. In my experience, this turns out to be a lot quicker and cleaner that trying to do in-place upgrades. Moreover, when you are all done, you still have your original, untouched disk. Disks are cheap :) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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