From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 08:25:20 2006 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 0186B16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:25:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA2C643D45 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:25:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 78354 invoked by uid 0); 10 Feb 2006 08:25:14 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2006 08:25:14 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1A7FcLX036383; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:15:39 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <43EC3D9A.5070403@alphaque.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:15:38 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20051026 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <200602081610.02251.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060208220534.GA68908@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060208220534.GA68908@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mikhail Teterin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:25:20 -0000 On 02/09/06 06:05 Erik Trulsson said the following: > The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and > config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from > backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct upgrades. there's been a lot of changes in freebsd since 4.x and a clean reinstall of 6.x will ensure that this gets to you with the least amount of problems. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+