From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 15 18:36:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 050F0106566C for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:36:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f193.google.com (mail-yx0-f193.google.com [209.85.210.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B468A8FC29 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe31 with SMTP id 31so5554856yxe.29 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:36:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xxr9LN/RyzezfL01tl9LUQA9x9J0MRdvR7lymL7N2t8=; b=HGfoof3JKSK4pniS6ZO937enB42JtRSvNPzzwvTbhIoQoyMN9w1tOof3FzOWm/IwOh 0iQne6czGjkv6gSmUfgVamtgKGg6MJDzess+QGsN0EV47Zk1vp9cwlhYvTWJAJtmlmD6 YnnZ8HLNuT6gsHaArjh2wVlTakhF4naRPxedA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=o/AGLJXEOKPGjWn1/76LVzQVr+EeP+V0SIqoXZNUHrstgdCUe2u5Vx6bcaYE3zdKMe NVFu7wqHi5Xmdgw+Wqcd+OfRd3679ycljnCHM8V2B/OrKwhP9iSTM5ZPSeos2UwH64RV 9XP2+CSCXVlx2feefim/KBYSHbPzBq3awwhx8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.11.30 with SMTP id 30mr4788356agk.42.1253039792764; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:36:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:36:32 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Rom Albuquerque Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:36:35 -0000 2009/9/15 Rom Albuquerque : > > > > =A0Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check > and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going t= o > be spinning my wheels on this one. > > The Objective. > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > =A0I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X > from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE fro= m > the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that > could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall > to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level > backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ? > In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old > distribution is a doable task ? > UFS1 v. UFS2, which isn't a big deal. Also, is your root partition large enough? IIRC 4.x defaulted to about 128M for /, which is far too small for 7.x and on. --=20 --