From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 16 23:31:22 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 906AB106566C for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:31:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201268FC13 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31578 invoked by uid 399); 16 Sep 2009 23:31:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 16 Sep 2009 23:31:21 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4AB17542.9010401@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:31:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Reilly References: <20090916065625.GA627@lonesome.com> <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20090916225319.GA1790@duncan.reilly.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mel Flynn , 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 23:31:22 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection