From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 20:40:12 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 2AC8916A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:40:12 +0000 (GMT) (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 EF73443D46 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:40:04 +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 A1DA41A3C25; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA63654BCE; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:40:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:40:02 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Crispy Beef Message-ID: <20060113204002.GE47416@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <43C540A1.7060805@ntlworld.com> <200601111059.21012.kstewart@owt.com> <43C628D2.3070500@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43C628D2.3070500@ntlworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... 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, 13 Jan 2006 20:40:12 -0000 --XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:00:50AM +0000, Crispy Beef wrote: > >There have been major changes in processes such as threads. You also=20 > >have to boot the 5.3 update in single user mode to have a kernel that=20 > >accepts the new arrangement and then install the userland. Before 5.1=20 > >or 5.2 it didn't matter much but there was an fs change that you update= =20 > >in single user mode or boot the fix disc to finish the botched update. > > > >You also have the problem that probably none of your ports from 4.x will= =20 > >work at 6.0. This could take quite a bit of time to upgrade. >=20 > One advantage is that I didn't really bother with the ports on that serve= r,=20 > I rolled my own apps as I wasn't totally up with the ports system at the= =20 > time, just seemed easier until I go the hang of it, so I probably would g= o=20 > for a fresh install of ports and get the latest versions of software=20 > installed that way. You'll need to delete them all by hand somehow, of course. Otherwise you'll have conflicts between your old and new stuff. > The server is used for web hosting so I only really need to save out a fe= w=20 > config files for virtual hosts etc. and the email directories. >=20 > It's sounding as though it might be easier just to have an hour or two of= =20 > downtime late one night and do a fresh install... Yes, this will be easiest (or use sysinstall's 'upgrade' mode). Unless you have a serial console, doing the src upgrade will be hard and prone to dramatic failure. Kris --XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDyBAiWry0BWjoQKURAkFiAJ97zXJxjxZUxjIY1eg6YPiJI37iWgCgtFQO ezp5OrfRHD8i36VYIhJul9c= =2XPU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x--