From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 29 14:44:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E212316A40F for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:44:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: from smtpout10-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout10-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 928EC13C461 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:44:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: (qmail 3499 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2006 14:18:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.144.77.243) by smtpout10-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.238) with ESMTP; 29 Dec 2006 14:18:08 -0000 Message-ID: <4595239F.5090502@seclark.us> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:18:07 -0500 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <20061229135848.GC996@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20061229135848.GC996@zaphod.nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Charles Sprickman , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:44:49 -0000 Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >On 2006.12.28 19:55:55 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > >>Is there any official doc on this? Perhaps I'm just not finding it? I >>would assume since everyone is being urged to get away from 4.x that >>somewhere there's a good step-by-step on how to do that. >> >> > >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html#UPGRADE > >That is the one I used (or perhaps I used it from 5.3-RELEASE, but >should be the same), when I recently upgraded a system 4->5->6. The >5->6 should be pretty much like any other FreeBSD upgrade, just follow >the normal documented upgrade procedure and don't skip steps. My >upgrade actually turned out to be pretty painless and just work. > > > Hi Simon, Charles is looking for info on how to upgrade remote systems, which he does not have physical access to. The document you reference does not have that info. Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)