From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 19:11:37 2004 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 7B24216A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:11:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8B443D2F for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:11:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:08:03 -0500 Message-ID: <412CE466.1010505@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:11:34 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Vaughan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Aug 2004 19:08:04.0338 (UTC) FILETIME=[D91C9520:01C48AD6] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 > 4.10 successful. Now > 5.x? 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: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:11:37 -0000 Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful. > > Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second > Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but > that's irrelevant). > > I feel that I should go ahead and first upgrade to 5.x and then > install Postfix and everything else I will need (e.g., PAM/LDAP > authentication, user folders, Samba, etc.). Otherwise, I'm afraid I > stop at 4.10 and install all the applications I need, then when I > really want to upgrade to 5.x I may find myself in trouble. But I am > interested in what the rest of you think. > > Curtis For various reasons, most of us mere mortals are advised to simply backup and install 5.x to a new disk (or a cleaned one, anyway). I started to say why ... I find that I can make a list of new features in 5.x, but am not necessarily aware of which features make a complete reinstallation desirable. I do know that you can't use ufs2 unless you reinstall.... Kevin Kinsey