From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 14:46:57 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 EA97E16A614 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77EA43D83 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4CEkbsG062436; Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44649FC8.4000500@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:32 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <010801c675ce$99aa5eb0$6501a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <010801c675ce$99aa5eb0$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 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, 12 May 2006 14:47:05 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have had complete success with upgrading 6.0 to 6.1rc1 and finally, 6.1 > RELEASE. > > Sorry about asking a question that I am sure has been asked once befor .... > > Can I upgrade a 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, 5.2.1 boxes the same way using CVSup i.e > directly from one of those to 6.1R? > Some of those, in fact, *most*, are a pretty big jump. Also, IIRC, all ports needs to be updated. In particular, it's a big jump from 4.X to 5.X; IIRC, you need to do some special magic from 4.11 to 5.X. After that, I'd wanna get to about 5.3/5.4 or so before jumping to 6.1. Then there's the filesystem issue. If you go from 4.X to 6.X directly by means of 2 or more cvsup/buildworld cycles, you can't reformat your disks and use UFS2. Kevin Kinsey > P.S. I keep complete backups ... > Good! -- My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to see! She lit a small match to assist her, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.