From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 23:41:46 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 623701065675 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@vjs.org) Received: from mail.vjs.org (static-71-126-154-132.washdc.fios.verizon.net [71.126.154.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372098FC16 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@vjs.org) Received: from [192.168.2.249] (71.126.154.142) by mail.vjs.org with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.1.5) for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:41:45 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Eudora 8.0b19 for Cray SV-2 (beta release), unregistered Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:41:37 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Vince Sabio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 23:41:46 -0000 ** At 00:25 +0200 on 08/12/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: >Vince Sabio wrote: >>I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), >>and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: >> >>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 is very old (it's not even labeled STABLE Neither am I -- so my FreeBSD box and I are even. >- are you sure "FreeBSD updates" track such old releases?) I don't think they do. >and there might be unexpected problems. > >>2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris >>sysadmin experience, but have no experience (yet) with FreeBSD >>updates. Is there a site with step-by-step instructions for the >>uninitiated, to help minimize Pr(failure)? >> >>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 system so messed up nobody could help you restore it). Do >a source upgrade to 6.0 then to 7.0 - it's not hard. For best >effects, you need to also recompile all additional ports installed >on the server (actually, you *can* run ports compiled for 5.x on 7.x >but as soon as you need to upgrade one of them, you'll probably need >to upgrade all or most of them because of cross-dependencies). Got it. There are sites that go through the 6.x to 7.0 upgrade, but I've foud nothing that explains how to get from 5. to 6.x. Any ideas here? __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio vince@vjs.org