From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 07:54:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA33016A421 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:54:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D89213C45B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:54:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.130.188] (port=45287 helo=smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1IPCc1-0007mT-Uk; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:45 +0200 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([213.51.103.48]:5038 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1IPCbz-0004xf-6O; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:43 +0200 Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95914398B6; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 58C9F398AB; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0CA39885; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46D12C9E.7040203@boosten.org> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:32:46 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martins@paris.ensmp.fr References: <46D01641.6000809@ensmp.fr> In-Reply-To: <46D01641.6000809@ensmp.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: url=http://www.boosten.org/content/view/49/47/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000768-3, 08/25/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.2 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: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:54:50 -0000 Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: > > Ralph, > > I found Ralph Engelschall scripts to upgrade FreeBSD systems. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt > > But there's a line saying : > > **** > The following is a step-by-step procedure for upgrading a server from > FreeBSD 5.[45]-STABLE to a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. > **** > > Probably this line tell me that I can't use it to upgrade from 5.3 to > 6.2. If I'm write, what can I do and how to modify it to upgrade a 5.3 > box ? Any other suggestion ??? The only thing I did was adding the following line to /etc/make.conf: COMPAT5x= yes Worked like charm for 3 different machines. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org