From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 04:34:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC435106566B for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@vjs.org) Received: from mail.vjs.org (static-71-126-154-132.washdc.fios.verizon.net [71.126.154.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E38D8FC08 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@vjs.org) Received: from [192.168.2.249] (71.126.154.142) by mail.vjs.org with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.1.5) for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:34:32 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <18592.25970.307339.178858@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <18592.25970.307339.178858@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Mailer: Eudora 8.0b19 for Cray SV-2 (beta release), unregistered Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:34:28 -0400 To: FreeBSD From: Vince Sabio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0 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: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:34:33 -0000 ** At 12:14 -0400 on 08/11/2008, Robert Huff wrote: >Vince Sabio writes: > >> I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), > > Why? Why am I a Bad Person(tm), or why am I still running v5.1? > > and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: >> >> 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a >> stop at v6.x? > > It is probably technically possible. > However: when jumping major versions, my advice is always "If >possible, install from clean disk." I assume you mean "install from a clean CD" -- I did that, and it worked like a charm. And, for anyone else running v5.x who is considering upgrading to v7.0, this seems to be a very good way to do it. I downloaded and burned a bootonly.iso, and then ran the upgrade via [passive] FTP. Ten or fifteen minutes later, I was booting into v7.0. > In either case: remember to save critical config files >(rc.conf, the kernel config, sshd_config, the named directory, etc.) >elsewhere. The fact that the upgrade worked proves that my backups are in good shape -- if they weren't, then the upgrade would have overwritten the system disk and then failed. ;-) __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio vince@vjs.org