From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 15:47:08 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 B2B8316A4E4 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E7543D46 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:47:08 +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, 13 Oct 2004 10:43:35 -0500 Message-ID: <416D4DF9.5070202@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:47:05 -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: mailings@analogon.com References: <1118.217.228.220.208.1097638429.squirrel@217.228.220.208> In-Reply-To: <1118.217.228.220.208.1097638429.squirrel@217.228.220.208> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2004 15:43:35.0782 (UTC) FILETIME=[66B94060:01C4B13B] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Literature 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, 13 Oct 2004 15:47:08 -0000 Thomas Beer wrote: >Dear All, > >I searched the FBSD site and the web for a compendium >how to updat from 4.x to 5.x but was unsuccessful. > >Any pointers? > >Thanks Tom > > Recommendations up until the present time have been to backup data and reinstall from scratch. This allows you to format new filesystems as ufs2. Some users have reported success in using "make buildworld" and so forth ... as another poster mentioned this morning, this is fraught with danger for the inexperienced. Bruce Mah of the FreeBSD Documentation Project has mentioned the need for updating the installation materials to reflect the new realities of operating in a 5-STABLE world. I do not know at what stage this part of the project is currently hovering, but he has at the very least *started* writing a "Migration guide"; the link is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html HTH, Kevin Kinsey