From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 23:18:09 2006 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 B767B16A416 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:18:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9541043D46 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:18:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7E005SCONLF060@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J7E00F2WONKD8L1@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J7E00J2UONK2GE0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2239 invoked from network); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:16:01 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:16:01 +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:16:01 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20061019193846.GA6209@hiMolde.no> To: "Hans F. Nordhaug" Message-id: <45380731.9010004@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20061019193846.GA6209@hiMolde.no> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: daemonology.net instructions - binary upgrade 5.3 to 6.1 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, 19 Oct 2006 23:18:09 -0000 Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > At daemonology.net Colin Percival has some excellent instructions on > how to do binary upgrades - he has even written a script to do a 6.0 > to 6.1 upgrade. My question is: Can I do a 5.3 to 6.1 upgrade using > the instructions for "5.4 system to FreeBSD 6.0" - see > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/ > Or, should I upgrade 5.3 to 6.0 and finally use the script to > get from 6.0 to 6.1? I assume the former, but just want to be sure. Either option will probably work; but I've never done a 5.3->6.0 binary upgrade directly, so I can't guarantee that it will work. :-) Colin Percival