From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 08:57:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DD316A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:57:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mynet.cz (74.mynet.cz [217.11.249.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D6943D64 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:57:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jp@devnull.cz) Received: from axxem.hide.subzone.cz (subzone.osad.prg.mynet.cz [82.119.254.162]) by mail.mynet.cz (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3P8wo0a016513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:58:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jp@devnull.cz) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:57:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Pechanec X-X-Sender: jp@axxem.hide.subzone.cz To: Iain Dooley In-Reply-To: <426CD723.3040906@iaindooley.com> Message-ID: <20050425105037.Y38987@axxem.hide.subzone.cz> References: <426CD319.6010005@iaindooley.com> <20050425012837.GA59690@xor.obsecurity.org> <426CD723.3040906@iaindooley.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:57:54 -0000 On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Iain Dooley wrote: >> Use sysinstall to do a binary upgrade, or carefully follow the >> directions in the handbook. > > binary upgrade!!! brilliant, i didn't even know it existed. is there a section > in the handbook on it? i couldn't find one. hi, be sure you know that 5.x uses UFS2. If you do just a binary upgrade, you keep older UFS1. It will work but generally it may not be a good idea. j. http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html -- Jan Pechanec