From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 17 00:28:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A534E106566C for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:28:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642568FC15 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:28:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2009 20:28:10 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.5-GA) with ESMTP id PZB17173; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 209-6-22-188.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.22.188]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2009 20:28:09 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19000.14488.566751.617255@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:28:08 -0400 To: Peter Clark In-Reply-To: <4A382A27.2010108@mtmary.edu> References: <4A3159B3.5090009@mtmary.edu> <4A316C54.3040409@otenet.gr> <44zlcephis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4A382A27.2010108@mtmary.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Crusty upgrade (was Make Question) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:28:11 -0000 Peter Clark writes: > Is there a recommended upgrade path? I know about cvsup and whatnot. > What I mean is are there some blatant gotchas when making this big a > jump (5.1p18 -> 6.4)? Are there some recommended stops along the way or > can it be done in one fell swoop. Is Colin Percival's freebsd-update.sh > a viable way to approach this? I do not know if freebsd-update works on 5.x. Even if it were possible, I strongly recommend installing from scratch when crossing a ",0" boundary and am not alone in that opinion. It provides the opportunity to resize partitions; there is less likelihood of a library mismatch, and you will recover the space used by any orphaned files. (My personal practice is to install to a new disk, and mount the old disk read-only until I'm willing to bet there's nothing more I need.) Robert Huff