From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 24 10:13:23 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B815F915669 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:13:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6724@bellsouth.net) Received: from nm24-vm7.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm24-vm7.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A91A11F0 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6724@bellsouth.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s2048; t=1435140641; bh=fNXfQPDImto/kA7lqlc2M3g+0tbdNhA6tq3NhEYiH0A=; h=Date:From:To:References:Subject:From:Subject; b=F+J4ixUBiTrclrgJudPeg8BAa6Oe2EZvbxgdJVjLo4IG/HxzpEeiRx2NRkJxlJagd8ZH9svND4GOYaxbIrKiIeGc3m0fbSmXFmvt8Y4Llmtcdv3KjnpAeK4Vpxp4iedSnbPQ/IQY7FgQzphv/sNPiXVlAxn074wL402q0RkV/Ec1X3yRnPVl4wiLkjoUKWjzaV/oqeWF5zwdNsfzgg0xnUu02z8MDjQ7sv7UP2j/KtOzj1k78iqtZ6CHjVrJ9WWFEOVz7HnOyPROhduzS/sK1iX5uEdsrVpC/c8TqTcogi3OPSyEy5Vsi3nX0vICqrA5yDv9nQ22oc1bzZe7k8vE+w== Received: from [216.39.60.175] by nm24.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2015 10:10:41 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.98] by tm11.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2015 10:10:41 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2015 10:10:41 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 833145.91368.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <833145.91368.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: bzjerFgVM1mRIXCenSLNqVUWg6_8XYLqn49tJX5CzI6CE1z EFxjjtOzW1DPtt4rexiI0WIBs7ChZVF51hFpXhUe65cBv9NiJGL.Q3pbBbpA BzS0kLLeYIDO1HLnCaf8zuxC8gujapVQ5eDLaRwMZ2haWJF6exVOiGS8ksL1 cDha4sQo_pRbdIJxzE1jWbBspytybe6.U_TsNHDmQjblsuxtNfPAaowxdkkH befuYZdj4744Q9iRvAKA.kKJikRNDEn062JlzvpRUkKImaiHGMy6KWUA1H.N _oRpPLL.K27qFbfj4n.3ck9OVOaOMMry3H.DcvsfTDuh4b18prUpusXWHMjF hWDT3Cf4.piDnSBldsC9.tnIAZ7FaFEVrl_HDammYmwM.m0dAjC4HHgydLGR TmcNZgsDHv2LW_XNNOZERsXx1Ny79ual8uWOCPoo2Kv999wlSli6RSGbpF4_ bSdFvf7S7YBk07XjVB8F.Xhr_bI8.hB5Z6U1qCeAXaJWYPODwD3Osmq7utia .k66bVfgpjXQ_RTn6RSqR3a0ThelaRv2CHkI4p1kMN7WZTMqpZrTjCGnKHyE - X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:10:03 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <86oak6p8w9.fsf@bsdstb.Belkin> Subject: Re: getting ports updated on an older FreeBSD (5.1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:13:23 -0000 I don't really know what to quote here, but another consideration is that a new FreeBSD will want or need more RAM and hard-disk space than was prevalent at the time of FreeBSD 5.1. That means a new computer. There are adapters, IDE <-> SATA and USB -> IDE, to transfer data from old IDE hard drives to a newer computer that has SATA and no IDE on motherboard. Also possibly NFS. Other changes are MBR -> GPT and old static device nodes with MAKEDEV (such as NetBSD and OpenBSD still have) to devfs. I was thinking about the possibility of building/upgrading the base FreeBSD from source by steps, such as 5.1 -> final 6-stable -> final 8-stable -> 10.1 or possibly FreeBSD-current. Or maybe shorter steps? Might be possible, but would likely be easier to download 10.1 or a snapshot of 10.1-STABLE or 11-current and install that. Use bsdinstall? In any case the ports would need to be rebuilt on new system. Tom