From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 17:05:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C0E16A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:05:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E035243D46 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:05:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j67H5Zmj020863; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:05:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:05:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20050707170534.GA10310@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050707134652.Y940@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050707134652.Y940@ganymede.hub.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:05:36 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 07), Marc G. Fournier said: > Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is > possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this > undesirable? That's what the Upgrade menu item in sysinstall is for :) It'll save a copy of /etc to a safe place then copy the passwd file back after the install. You'll want to rebuild all your ports, but most should still work until you do. A fresh install is always cleaner, but I've upgraded some of my servers from 2.2.8 -> 4.* -> 5.* with no problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com