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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:25:03 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0
Message-ID:  <g7qe80$ogs$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f3bc4c60066097d@[192.168.2.249]>
References:  <p05200f3bc4c60066097d@[192.168.2.249]>

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Vince Sabio wrote:
> I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and=20
> need to update it to v7.0. Questions:
>=20
> 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at =

> v6.x?

Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 5.1=20
is very old (it's not even labeled STABLE - are you sure "FreeBSD=20
updates" track such old releases?) and there might be unexpected problems=
=2E

> 2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris sysadmin =

> experience, but have no experience (yet) with FreeBSD updates.  Is ther=
e=20
> a site with step-by-step instructions for the uninitiated, to help=20
> minimize Pr(failure)?
>=20
> 3. Anything else I should know?

You probably don't want to do it with binary upgrades, for many reasons, =

including unexpected problems (i.e. possibility of ending up with a=20
system so messed up nobody could help you restore it). Do a source=20
upgrade to 6.0 then to 7.0 - it's not hard. For best effects, you need=20
to also recompile all additional ports installed on the server=20
(actually, you *can* run ports compiled for 5.x on 7.x but as soon as=20
you need to upgrade one of them, you'll probably need to upgrade all or=20
most of them because of cross-dependencies).


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