From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 12:27:47 2005 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 996A916A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:27:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772F243D5A for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:27:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so210149nzd for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:27:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qFGmWU2E8w2sWQX17FU2N80b53RKel0IogMe8G4OU2DsVlcVGdA1ikWYBlf44HGGorjARJFEFlghH1XdlUeTIiB45yWFe2xk2aIMm/vuDPMvT9ULrEDEv5dW3iZJnzLYyZtH+AzwXjh+3spwfDllBteeDDD4vKalEv5gby28XGo= Received: by 10.36.13.11 with SMTP id 11mr4419741nzm; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:27:45 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com In-Reply-To: <200509272240.27476.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200509271941.57840.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <57416b3005092718432a5311bc@mail.gmail.com> <200509272240.27476.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Cc: Peter Clutton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Andrew P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:27:47 -0000 On 9/28/05, Jay Moore wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:43 pm, Peter Clutton wrote: > > > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just n= ot > > > clear > > > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detaile= d > > > source > > > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)= ? > > > > This might help: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.htm= l > > No hard drive messing required. You will also need to read up on csv i= n > > handbook. > > This is pretty old hardware - 200 MHz Pentium; I tried the makeworld rout= e > once before, and it took too long. I just wanted a nice, simple, binary > upgrade... maybe that's not possible; maybe I will have to do a fresh > install. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > If I were you, I'd try the binary update first. In the hard drive configuration screens, leave the partiotions untouched (press q in the partiotioning screen) and type in the mount points in the labelling screen. You can check out your current mount points by typing "# mount" on your running system. Just jot it down - and type it in later. Also make sure the newfs toggles are off (this is probably the default) if you don't want to reformat your drive. If you get stuck, you can try to install 5.4 over 5.2 without formatting your partitions. Just use the same set of instructions. You might need to run mergemaster after installation. And if you don't have any important data on the hard drive - why bother at all? Just make a clean install. Cheerz, Andrew P.