Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:31:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. Message-ID: <4AB17542.9010401@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home> References: <SNT114-W30A82828223906987304DBEDE30@phx.gbl> <20090916065625.GA627@lonesome.com> <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home>
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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> 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.)
There are also the issues of CPU horesepower and quantity of RAM that
are potential problems on hardware that is at minimum 6 years old.
Everything about this project shouts DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! to me.
Doug
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