Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:03:07 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Charlie Watts <cewatts@frontier.net> Subject: Re: 3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20020425140307.4159ebe4.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0204240418460.2700-100000@eggplant.frontier.net> References: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0204240418460.2700-100000@eggplant.frontier.net>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:30:08 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) Charlie Watts <cewatts@frontier.net> wrote: > I have a machine I want to upgrade from 3.3-RELEASE to 4-STABLE. UPDATING > seems to indicate I can jump all the way to 4-STABLE, but I know folks > have recommended a center step. > If you fresh install from 4.5 or later you can get a good performance boost by enabling soft-updates. Just delete then recreate your partitions in the "label/disklabel" part of sysinstall, and be sure to toggle softupdates on for your non "/" partitions like /usr. This takes some of the "bite" out of having to do the backups and a fresh install. I believe that FreeBSD 4.1 can cvsup/buildworld update properly directly to 4.5-STABLE (not 4.5-RELEASE) Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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