From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 11:32:10 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 CA98F16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:32:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 088C743D6B for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sebastian.ssmoller@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 764 invoked by uid 65534); 22 Jan 2004 19:31:31 -0000 Received: from pD9E829D4.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [217.232.41.212]) (217.232.41.212) by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 22 Jan 2004 20:31:31 +0100 X-Authenticated: #15005775 From: sebastian ssmoller To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074799947.1775.1.camel@tyrael.linnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:32:27 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:32:10 -0000 hi, have a look at this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-July/002127.html hth, seb On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 18:19, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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.