From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 18:10: 3 2002 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 B1F0F37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haystack.lclark.edu (haystack.lclark.edu [149.175.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F87043EAF for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anholt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from copeland-30-191.lclark.edu (anholt@copeland-30-191.lclark.edu [149.175.30.191]) by haystack.lclark.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18835; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Migrating Small i386 4.2 to 4.6.2, risks From: Eric Anholt To: Everett F Batey II Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3D8679E2.881EF226@cotdazr.org> References: <3D8679E2.881EF226@cotdazr.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 16 Sep 2002 18:09:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1032224984.893.171.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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, 2002-09-16 at 17:40, Everett F Batey II wrote: > As long as I preserve all /etc ../etc what risks go with upgrading > from 4.2 to 4.6.2 ? XF 336 to XF 40 ? If you actually mean "i386" and not just general x86, then XFree86 4 may be a problem. Some older chipsets aren't as well supported in XF86-4 as they were in 3.3.6. Switching from 3.3.6 to 4.x and back shouldn't be too painful, particularly if you use packages. (the dependencies when you use ports can sometimes be nasty, use portupgrade if you do). I would recommend giving it a try. I don't think the cpu/memory requirements for X have changed that much since 3.3. -- Eric Anholt http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message