From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 09:19:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD3716A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBA843D1D for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0MHJ81q006767; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:19:08 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se> References: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:19:06 -0500 To: "Sessler, Enrico" , From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Downgrade FreeBSD 5.1 or 5.2 -> 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:19:11 -0000 At 9:01 AM +0100 1/22/04, Sessler, Enrico wrote: >Hello, > >is there a way to downgrade from FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE >or 5.2-CURRENT to the latest 4.x version? This would be very hard for us to support, and I expect you will have a lot of trouble trying to do an "in place" downgrade to 4.x. You will have much less trouble if you just resign yourself to backing-up the data you need to some safe place, and do a fresh install (ie, reformat the drives using the 4.9 installation discs, and install everything from scratch). I realize that is a lot of work. However, I am pretty sure that will be less work than trying to do a "simple downgrade". >Note: I have no console access to the machines only >telnet/rlogin. Thus using a boot floppy/CD is not possible. This makes it even less likely that you will be successful doing a downgrade to 4.9. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu