From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 06:59:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 AC88C16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:59:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jura@networks.ru) Received: from networks.ru (orange.networks.ru [80.249.138.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81AD43D46 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:59:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jura@networks.ru) Received: from [81.195.67.217] (HELO Jura) by networks.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTPS id 1999241 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:59:10 +0400 Message-ID: <042601c5ce31$19a2b4a0$6504010a@Jura> From: "Yuriy N. Shkandybin" To: References: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> <434B6102.2050608@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:57:52 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:59:13 -0000 Yes, but change synproxy state to keep state in pf config file, if you use it . Jura > Jim Keller wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm trying to determine which version of FreeBSD to install on a new >> server I have coming in, since I know that the 5 branch is to become an >> errata branch sooner rather than later. The migration guide from 4.x to >> 5.x recommends a clean install of FreeBSD followed by data restoration, >> which makes sense considering the major changes in 5.x, especially to >> the filesystem. However, will this still hold true for going from 5.x to >> 6? I'd prefer to install 5.4 for now then run a buildworld later and >> bump it to 6, but will buildworld be a reasonable way of going from 5.4 >> to 6? >> >> Thanks >> >> -Jim Keller > > Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 is very easy. I did it last weekend on my > firewall+mailserver with just the normal upgrade procedures. The only > gotcha that I can think of is the renamed serial ports. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >