From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 22:25:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5CA1065671 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239DD8FC21 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KSfp9-0000GA-Uk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:12 +0000 Received: from 78-0-73-142.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.73.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:11 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-73-142.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:25:03 +0200 Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig98F63D34149755367681AA41" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-73-142.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news Subject: Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig98F63D34149755367681AA41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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). --------------enig98F63D34149755367681AA41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIoLw/ldnAQVacBcgRAqBtAJ9kPB3xI/kQJCISEZcFx5IM8qjx/gCg3Bh9 rw87PgdvkUORquXN52G9mXI= =y5Z9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig98F63D34149755367681AA41--