From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 19:08:20 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 CC2CD16A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:08:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D9743D4C for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:08:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([69.172.31.117]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060111190816.RJV5278.mta11.adelphia.net@barbish>; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:08:16 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" To: "Crispy Beef" , Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:08:11 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <43C540A1.7060805@ntlworld.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:08:20 -0000 There is a new and faster file system which is introduced in release-5.4. I highly recommend that you install 6.0 from scratch and build your old server services anew to a development box you have personal access to. Then remove the hard drive and ship it to you remote site and swap with your production drive. That way you get the new file system in production and have quick fall back if things don't work. There is a lot of maintenance benefits to be had from a new clean built from scratch server. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Crispy Beef Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... 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. :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"