Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:20:05 -0400 From: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702B16@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070402095913.025c7c90@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING
I have
# locate UPDATING
/usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING
/usr/ports/UPDATING
/usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING
/usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING
________________________________
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:derek@computinginnovations.com]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM
To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version
CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your
setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first.
Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases.
-Derek
At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues
with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav-
My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with
assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing
for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned
earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to
resolve as I am a one man IT department here.
The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade
to 6.2 -
I have the following hardware-
PIII 500mhz
256 ram
8 gig hard-drive
The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to
my exchange server-
Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade,
since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail-
lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD
IDEA.
So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what
would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD
world-
Thanks
Jean-Paul Natola
Network Administrator
Information Technology
Family Care International
588 Broadway Suite 503
New York, NY 10012
Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36
Fax: 212-941-5563
Mailto: Jnatola@Familycareintl.org
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