From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 17:30:21 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 1433016A420 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21C743D6A for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060111173011.SKI17804.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:11 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [82.12.81.129]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060111173011.ZCMV10196.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.0.2]> for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:11 +0000 Message-ID: <43C540A1.7060805@ntlworld.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:09 +0000 From: Crispy Beef User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... 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: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:30:21 -0000 Hi, I have a production server running 4.6-RELEASE and I would like to bring it upto date and get 6.0-RELEASE on there. I have a rough idea of what needs to be done to accomplish this from reading various docs but it would be nice to see how smoothly it has gone for any others. From what I can tell I first need to upgrade to a minimum of 5.3-RELEASE and then onto 6.0, so I guess doing a cvsup to the 5.3-RELEASE and then doing buildworld et all? Then from there to same to get to 6.0? My main concern is the filesystem, it's been updated since 4.x? Will this mess things up? The machine is remote so I really need to make sure this works without making it inaccessible. I have a box here to trial run the process on so I get the steps correct first time, but thought I'd ask here too. :-)