From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 18:46:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smarty.smart.net (smarty.smart.net [207.176.80.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158BB37B61E for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdd@smart.net) Received: from localhost (rdd@localhost) by smarty.smart.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA05560; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:46:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:46:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. D. Davis" To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Subject: Re: 2.2.x to 4.0 In-Reply-To: <01c301bff1e8$77485900$0200000a@danco> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Dan O'Connor wrote: > I've heard one way is to upgrade to 3.5-STABLE, then upgrade again to > 4.0-STABLE (soon to be 4.1). Rumour has it 2.2.x to 4.0 direct isn't > feasible. That's what I'm discovering... a bit too late, alas for my crashed system. It would have been helpful if a note about this had been included with the 4.0 distribution, suah as in a README file, or at least on the CD package or in the ordering info. > Personally, I'd back up all my data, make note of all my server configs, and > install 4.0 from scratch... That's what I'll do as soon as I get another hard drive so I can attempt to at least mount the old /usr as a different partition if I can access it again. Hopefully my tape drives can be accessed after a fresh install, as I couldn't access them after the microsoftization (no, I didn't install any microsoft software, but perhaps you get my point... a once reliable system wrecked ...sorry to have to say this about FreeBSD) of my once working system. I hate to say this, but this experience has made me think that perhaps I should stock up on more old Sun 4 hardware and rely more on an old version of Solaris for safeguarding my data. Hopefully someone from this list, or someone developing FreeBSD can help change my mind about this. A word of caution: it may be a good idea to remove tapes from all tape drives when installing FreeBSD... not sure if the following is why my 4mm drive can't be accessed, but, during the upgrade, the lights on the drive began blinking like data was being accessed and it was making noises. -- R. D. Davis rdd@perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message