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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Ken Bolingbroke <freebsd@bolingbroke.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010010815420.7406-100000@veager.siteplus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000930224049.H25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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I know for a fact this works.  I have done binary upgrades straight from
2.2.6 to 4.0-STABLE snapshots.

One note, the next time you SVSUP and build you should rebuild
/usr/src/release/sysinstall since it doesnt automatically build during
makeworld.

--
Jim Weeks


On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:59:43PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:13:23PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm in the middle of updating a machine from 2.2.5 to 4.1.1, hopefully.  
> > > > I've got it to 2.2.8-S, successfully, then when the initial attempt to go
> > > > from 2.2.8 to 3.5-S failed, I dropped down to 3.2-R which was successful.
> > > 
> > > You did a binary upgrade to 3.2-R? Why not just do the binary upgrade
> > > to 4.1.1?
> > 
> > I didn't do a binary upgrade, I cvsup'd RELENG_3_2_0.  The machine in
> > question doesn't have either a CD or floppy drive, and it also only has
> > 8 meg of RAM, all of which make binary upgrading a bit difficult.  
> > Otherwise, I'd have wiped the machine and installed 4.1.1 fresh.
> 
> Holy, @#$%! And you do buildworlds on this machine!? Sounds like a
> source upgrade would be even tougher. How long does it take to do one?
> 
> Can you not do sysinstall on 8 MB anymore? If you can, I'd recommend
> doing the minimal install of 4.1.1 over FTP. I can't imagine that that
> would take longer than two or three buildworlds unless you are running
> over a 1200 baud connection.
> 
> If sysinstall does not work on 8 MB anymore, do you have another
> machine that you can use to help? That opens up a lot more options.
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
> 
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