From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 2 4:43:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A8737B406 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 04:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA77154; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:43:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:43:33 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: jfm@reiteration.net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: guide to downgrading from 5.0 to 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20011102074333.A77125@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011102123618.A52736@shell.reiteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20011102123618.A52736@shell.reiteration.net>; from jfm@shell.reiteration.net on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:36:18PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having done this several times before, I highly recommend downgrading via binary package. Back up your system first! Get your 4.4 CD, throw it in the drive, and see what happens. As a rule this is not guaranteed to work, but if it doesn't then a downgrade from source certainly won't. I believe (knock on wood) that the filesystems between 4.4 and -current are in sync, so you'll probably be OK. You will, of course, have to reinstall every single program on the system. Enjoy. :) On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:36:18PM +0000, John wrote: > Hello List > > Is there a guide or a how-to showing how to downgrade from a > 5.0-CURRENT snapshot to 4.4-STABLE without having to blat the system and > start again? The reason 5.0 is on there is because only 5 had support for > the promise udma 100 tx2 card, but now that 4.4 has it, i would like to > downgrade. Any help or pointers how to accomplish this welcomed. If I have > to blat the system, I guess I have to do it but it is the least favoured > option. > > Please cc to jfm@reiteration.net as I am not on this list at this address > > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message