From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 16 22:53:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C801065672 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80748FC1D for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com ([124.188.161.100]) by nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20090916225328.RNUK1883.nskntmtas06p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:28 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([124.188.161.100]) by nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20090916225327.BKHX28036.nskntotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:27 +0000 Received: (qmail 1908 invoked by uid 501); 16 Sep 2009 22:53:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:53:19 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly To: Mel Flynn Message-ID: <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20090916065625.GA627@lonesome.com> <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-RPD-ScanID: Class unknown; VirusThreatLevel unknown, RefID str=0001.0A150201.4AB16C67.00BD,ss=1,fgs=0 X-SIH-MSG-ID: oxE3GdL4TAD0zmQs0WyzOwJxyArnqyN48Z4QX81loRIGTUDCp8DeQ9rEJvdRotumxD9KJhiHNGQjaa7jTY3RstCK Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rom Albuquerque Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:30 -0000 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 08:56:25 Mark Linimon wrote: > > You've gotten some good advice about the steps necessary, but not the > > advice that you'll spend a lot less time if you do a new install from > > scratch. > > Except OP mentions install from CD is broken for his system and I doubt 4.x > sysinstall will do 7.x new ftp install satisfactory. That's not going to leave him in a very comfortable place when he discovers that his root partition is too small for the 7-stable root install, part-way through the install... For this kind of upgrade, you just have to have a fallback strategy, because the chances of something not going quite right are high. Fixing the CD install issues has to be the first port of call. (I don't expect that any machine that has 4.9 on it will be able to boot from USB: my old boxes can't.) Cheers -- Andrew