Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:56:16 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4... Message-ID: <20050921235617.B0CEF5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:23:18 %2B0200." <p0620070fbf578cfc47ff@[10.0.1.210]>
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> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:23:18 +0200 > From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > At 11:34 PM +0200 2005-09-21, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > And you should of course also read /usr/src/UPDATING as usual. > > That's the current version of the file from the 5.x tree, right? > Is there any obvious way to see what this is without going ahead and > downloading all the source anyway? Maybe there's something I'm > missing, but this seems to be one of the really important files that > is not easily available via the web interface on freebsd.org -- > they've got the RELEASE_NOTES and a number of others, but not this > one. Check in the CVS repository: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?annotate=1.342.2.24&only_with_tag=RELENG_5_4 One down side of an upgrade in-place is that you don't get the larger root partition that is now default and you don't get UFS2 file systems on your partitions. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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