From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 31 04:37:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5644D106566B for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amitabhkant@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f184.google.com (mail-qy0-f184.google.com [209.85.221.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC698FC14 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk14 with SMTP id 14so5267qyk.9 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:37:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=rnEOf0VyztAFwvUvKntPoP5A2ODuoQzfZIeoqQEsGFU=; b=nz8YsZeIuUmmMpxRL9yQYt4qF7VJ2hMhOYmF/C/g3EIIel2M5b/4QRphFYkzU2xfcQ 84lC15m1ycak+ChNAVZOL3/dIiT5lymHO+t96Gmev8trah4RYgrECIwZFeGZhbWnUfM3 vH6gPEIi4WHEk/FWxa6OL2iotJt6tiecxBKXw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=uLZ22ILmRLyLdBji8pjNtyEuFATM0H1wZJrsZNiR/lw5SSW9FpAkcXqZzwKCiu/ZEL 9Jr+YN7RsxU07UlDLJ1ekk4efFlNiUVqJ05b6Mceb4ZTUCx/IQiVthtLightuX7wpPT1 VtNyik8sTyJ2EGLMyxAIdTa0k1iqTC40V4sHU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.115.203 with SMTP id j11mr1106901qcq.3.1264912648125; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:37:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> References: <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> From: Amitabh Kant Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:07:08 +0530 Message-ID: <84b68b3d1001302037i4950367fhc9964496ab686cf4@mail.gmail.com> To: Jeff Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x 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: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:37:29 -0000 On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > Hello my friends, > > I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD > 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like > to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by > very specific applications I had to support, but I'm in the clear now. > > Given the age of the installation, I'm wondering what the > recommended upgrade path would be. > > The obvious options are.. > > 1 - upgrade step by step; go from fbsd 5.4 to 6.4 (say) to 7.2 (say) > to 8.0 > > 2 - one big-ass upgrade from 5.4 to 8 (*fear*) > > 3 - yank the drive, slap a giant new fat drive in there, do a full > fbsd 8.0 install, and then migration from old drive as needed > > I would suggest going in for 3 too, but then you would get better suggestions on this list. > > Aside -- whats the recommended way to stay on top of upgrades > anyway? It used to be a tortuous process back 5 years ago, but hopefully > things are much more streamlined now .. nightly 'make upgrade' ftw :) > > jeff > > Take a look at freebsd-update ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html). Amitabh Kant