From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 5:45:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufficiopostale.it (servizi.interazioni.it [194.183.4.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC3937B411 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 05:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 51774 invoked by uid 85); 21 Jun 2002 12:45:10 -0000 Received: from tonix@interazioni.it by avsmtp.ufficiopostale.it by uid 88 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (nod32: 1.271 (20020619)/. Clear:. Processed in 0.026028 secs); 21 Jun 2002 12:45:10 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: tonix@interazioni.it via avsmtp.ufficiopostale.it X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.12 (Clear:. Processed in 0.026028 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO NATIARM1.interazioni.it) (tonix@interazioni.it@62.110.167.75) by xsmtp.ufficiopostale.it with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Jun 2002 12:45:10 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020621143524.00a71a08@pop.ufficiopostale.it> X-Sender: tonix@interazioni.it@pop.ufficiopostale.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:43:39 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "tonix (Antonio Nati)" Subject: Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've a FreeBSD box running fine with 4.0 and lots of applications, DB server, WEB servers, (NO X-server), etc.., all working extremely nicely. Probably, I'll have to expand to another box with RAID disks, and much probably, I should switch to FreeBSD 4.6. I cant rebuild all, too many applications... May anyone suggest if this plan may works, or suggest me different paths? A) Backup old system (megatar.tar.Z) B) Create new system, with minimal FreeBSD 4.0 installation, creation of all disks, etc... C) Restore of megatar.tar.z in new system D) Binary upgrade of new system to 4.6 E) Recompile and install of new kernel with new features enabled (multi-processor, etc). F) Recompile and install of additional packages (where possible). I would like to avoid to install upgrades of packages. I already upgraded where there were security problems, and I would like to avoid to make an uncontrolled salad just now. Thanks for any advice. Tonino P.S. Please reply cc to me also, I'm not subscribed to this mailing list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message