From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 21:34:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 20FBE16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:34:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C34E43D55 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:34:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53AC41A3C33; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FCEA5158D; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:34:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:34:18 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: K?vesd?n G?bor Message-ID: <20051128213418.GA29366@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4C4F88B5-5D17-44E9-8680-EE15E0E5C3FA@cc.usu.edu> <438B747A.7070006@t-hosting.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <438B747A.7070006@t-hosting.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: hal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 --> 6.0 via cvsup 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: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:34:21 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:19:54PM +0100, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: > hal wrote: >=20 > >I have a system running 4.7. Can I upgrade it to > >6.0 via cvsup? If not what is the best way? > > > Afaik, You must upgrade to 5.x first and then You can move to 6.x.=20 Yes. It might be easier to do a binary upgrade (i.e. download 6.0 release media, use sysinstall's 'upgrade' option), or even to backup and reinstall from scratch. > Anyway FreeBSD 4.x uses an older and slower filesystem UFS1, whilst=20 > FreeBSD 5.x and newer uses UFS2. There is no measurable speed difference between UFS1 and 2, it's only feature differences (e.g. ACL support). Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDi3faWry0BWjoQKURAnOLAKCQJaOfE9c4jTRflwOUc9oEyFgjRACfSkdX kYld+8qQ59qZQXqBUSzOkok= =Im7n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--