From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 12:41:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3B337B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92F343F13 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DKfN1n012400 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:41:23 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0DKfIeO012399 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:41:18 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:41:18 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.5 to 4.x Message-ID: <20030113204118.GB11756@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:50:55PM +0000, anak freebsd wrote: > i want to upgrade my freebsd 3.5 to 4.x with cvsup RELENG_4 but i always > fail when i run make buildworld. > is there anyway that i can upgrade my box? If you want to upgrade via buildworld, I'm afraid you're going to have to do that large a jump in several stages: 3.5 -> RELENG_3 (latest version of 3.x-STABLE, I think 3.5.1) RELENG_3 -> RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE (4.0-RELEASE. (This update is fairly tricky, and you'll need to pay special attention to the notes in UPDATING)) RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE -> RELENG_4 You might even need to put in yet another step between 4.0-RELEASE and 4.x-STABLE. On the other hand, it's probably going to be a lot easier and more productive to back up all your important data and configuration changes and then just install 4.7-RELEASE over your 3.5 machine, then use cvsup to get to 4.7-STABLE, and restore or recreate the important bits from your 3.5 system. Note that which ever way you do the update, you're going to run into various gotchas, like the change from DES to MD5 password hashes. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message