Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:46:32 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Message-ID: <44649FC8.4000500@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <010801c675ce$99aa5eb0$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <010801c675ce$99aa5eb0$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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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.
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