From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 19:53:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7067716A4D4 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:53:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5323343D98 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:50:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kAEJoGCX026854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:50:16 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.5.99] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.5.99]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kAEJoGpM017517 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:50:16 -0800 Message-ID: <455A1DF8.8030606@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:50:16 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2006.11.14.113932 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:53:21 -0000 Jay Gordon wrote: > That's the way I would go about it. > > Jay Gordon > Unix Systems Administrator > DataPipe Managed Hosting Services > - What It Means To Be Sure - > jgordon@datapipe.com | http://www.datapipe.com > Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Scott > Schappell > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 > to 6.0 > > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > enough. > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it > seems I > need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6. > > My thinking is the best way to do this would be to cvsup, do the > rebuilding > of the world thing boot it to the 5 version then cvsup to 6. > > The server is continuously backed up so rolling back won't be a problem > if I > need to. > > Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? If so, what > intermediate > jump(s) do I need to make to get from 4.11 to 6? > That's a major set of version jumps though, so you may want to consider a clean install of 6.x via binaries, then source upgrade to 6.2 in a couple of weeks using cvsup once it's made stable; besides, reinstalling would be trivial if you copy down your /etc files you need to keep, as well as your packages / ports db (/var/db/ports), and home directories. Besides, if you do a clean reinstall at least you might claim back some space that was being used by leftover cruft from packages, uninstalled packages, or 'ancient' :) OS features. -Garrett