Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:17:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: jl@burghcom.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0509061212300.24526@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050905095615.qfu5dtmsggog0kkg@atomic.burghcom.com> References: <002e01c5b209$abaae280$c700a8c0@lgq> <20050905095615.qfu5dtmsggog0kkg@atomic.burghcom.com>
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On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 jl@burghcom.com wrote: > Quoting "liguoqiang\(126\)" <liguoqiang_0121@126.com>: > > > 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
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