Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:36:32 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. Message-ID: <d7195cff0909151136p7b351f53jeab9b7895872f775@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <SNT114-W30A82828223906987304DBEDE30@phx.gbl> References: <SNT114-W30A82828223906987304DBEDE30@phx.gbl>
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2009/9/15 Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo@hotmail.com>: > > > > =A0Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check > and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going t= o > be spinning my wheels on this one. > > The Objective. > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > =A0I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X > from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE fro= m > the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that > could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall > to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level > backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ? > In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old > distribution is a doable task ? > UFS1 v. UFS2, which isn't a big deal. Also, is your root partition large enough? IIRC 4.x defaulted to about 128M for /, which is far too small for 7.x and on. --=20 --
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