From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 14 10:14:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EEEF37B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:14:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 48161 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Mar 2001 18:14:15 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:14:15 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Update UPDATING for upgrade path from 3.4 (was Re: Major upgrade)... Message-ID: <20010314101415.B48101@rand.tgd.net> References: <000e01c0ac9d$abd50040$fd03a8c0@ws001> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DBIVS5p969aUjpLe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "marius@mail.communityconnect.com" on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at = 10:50:19AM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've done this upgrade a few times and tried going from 3.4 -> 4.X: not so smooth. In fact, big sink whole for time, however, 3.4 -> 3.5-STABLE -> 4.X works very nicely. Having spent a chunk of time upgrading 30+ boxes, going to 3.5 works well, but takes more time than backing up and restoring after a fresh 4.X build. ::grin:: At anyrate, would it be possible to have someone not this in UPGRADING? 3.4 -> 4.X =3D=3D bad, but 3.4 -> 3.5 -> 4.X =3D=3D good? It would've saved me a large chunk of time, esp since the only doc I found that had a hit of this was Ralf's email (very useful, btw. Thanks!). -sc On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Marius wrote: > I've done the upgrade from 3.4 to 4.x stable a few times. I > genrally go from 3.4->3.5-Stable and then 3.5-Stable -> > 4.x-stable. >=20 > Basically, if you follow the instructions in UPDATING, it should go well. > If you take UPDATING seriously and actually reboot into single user when > it tells you to, it will likely be painless. There are ways to get around > going into single user, but if you have the luxury of a console, don't > sweat it. >=20 > -Marius --=20 Sean Chittenden sean@chittenden.org --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqvtPcACgkQn09c7x7d+q0lKACgwwLu+UJWxMp5kwbLiaglWkci r6oAoN+xOLART5SyE88V00skkoruhgEt =syl0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DBIVS5p969aUjpLe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message