From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 12:40:05 2004 Return-Path: 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 1024F16A4CE; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [66.55.195.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D41E43D39; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:40:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrb@bmyster.com) Received: from loqtis.bmyster.com (localhost.bmyster.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmyster.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6HCpvfX050832; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from www@localhost) by loqtis.bmyster.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6HCpqdY050831; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:51:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: loqtis.bmyster.com: www set sender to mrb@bmyster.com using -f Received: from 216.195.139.40 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mrb) by new.host.name with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:51:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1048.216.195.139.40.1090068712.squirrel@new.host.name> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:51:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brent Bailey" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mrb@bmyster.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:40:05 -0000 Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very familier with the make buildworld procedure however there have been significant changes between 4.2 & 5.x so is this something that can be done without many problems ? Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so differrent. personally i would recommend going to the lastest stable release 4.10-p2 I welcome this lists thoughts & opions on this matter thank in advance for any help :-) -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Engineer, Webmaster, President http://www.bmyster.com mrb@bmyster.com 207-247-8330