From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 11:34:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 63D9D37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A685B43F75 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h38IYHV03746; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:34:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Mark Weinem , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:34:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304062023.37473.fallenbr@uol.com.br> <200304062141.33136.taxman@acd.net> <20030408000819.GC52845@pandora.plagegeister.de> In-Reply-To: <20030408000819.GC52845@pandora.plagegeister.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304081134.16770.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: From 4.7 to 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 18:34:34 -0000 On Monday 07 April 2003 05:08 pm, Mark Weinem wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2003, taxman wrote: > > > > - Using the binary upgrade option of sysinstall(8). > > > > as far as I understand it, it's the worst of the three options. > > Back up and reinstall is the most reliable. I've done many many > > source upgrades, and never had serious problems that trying again > > didn't fix. > > I don't see why binary upgrading should be worst. Never had serious > problems with it. > I also agree with your comments about binary upgrading. I never had a problem jumping to a major upgrade. Some friends use a clean instal but I think that isl because they need to rethink their arrangements. It will also get rid of extraneous stuff. I think a major upgrade such as a 4.x to 5.x system might be handled best with a reinstall. I did this recently when 5.0 was released. The reason I did a reinstall was because my fs setup was totally inadequate for my uses. I think I had a 100 MB / and was always fighting to keep it under 100%. The next version had a 500 MB / and I am running something like 15-16%. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html