From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 01:24:58 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 F12BF16A40F for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:24:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD66243D46 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:24:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D961A3C1F; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C925451309; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:24:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:24:57 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: backyard Message-ID: <20060925012457.GA51321@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060924211224.98572.qmail@web34309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060925004959.58280.qmail@web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060925004959.58280.qmail@web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jason Artz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to install RELEASE-6.1, have 5.3 disks 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: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:24:59 -0000 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:49:59PM -0700, backyard wrote: > I thought if you went to the options in sysinstall and > go to the part that says Release Name and it likely is > going to say 5.3-RELEASE change that to 6.1-RELEASE > and then do an ftp install. You should get the newer > version of the system. I have used this to install > 5.4-CURRENT in th past from 5.4 bootdisks. I would > have to assume it should work for a newer release as > the distribution is packed the same. Nope, as the OP correctly states this will often not work. Your old release can't know all the special steps required to update to a newer release (files to not overwrite, etc). Kris --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFFy/oWry0BWjoQKURAnzhAJ9hI0vUnQ9K5cHPEc+pbIhPWpoEWwCeIgpT q38qjL9wDh0EdQXhVN20liw= =TeQH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--