From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 11:17:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6824B16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:17:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0876143D45 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:17:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1ECbS8-0004nn-If; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:17:27 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ECbS7-0001ER-5m; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:17:23 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:17:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: jl@burghcom.com In-Reply-To: <20050905095615.qfu5dtmsggog0kkg@atomic.burghcom.com> Message-ID: References: <002e01c5b209$abaae280$c700a8c0@lgq> <20050905095615.qfu5dtmsggog0kkg@atomic.burghcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-Spam-Level: -- Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:17:29 -0000 On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 jl@burghcom.com wrote: > Quoting "liguoqiang\(126\)" : > > > Hi, all: > > I update my freebsd ver 4.11 by cvsup src-all tree. > > It's successfully as below: > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel > > make installkernel > > But some errors appear when i make installworld: > > > > It has been my experience that updating from one full version to another (3.x > to > 4.x, 4.x to 5.x) is better done by doing a clean binary install of the next > version, then import/install software and users on the new system. > I understand that this is not always an option, but I have had less problems > this way than cvsup across full versions. FWIW I've had no problems following the source upgrade instructions - they were very successful. The only issue I came across was one of my own making: I used a second drive to install copies of /, /usr to manage upgrades (much like solaris' liveupdate) and wound up with a ufs2 /, which my original bootloader (from the 3.x days) didn't grok. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ and Nostradamus never dreamed of the Church of the Accellerated Worm