Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:50:20 -0800 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1? Message-ID: <93844B59-B4B4-4DDB-BE2C-0181907D3BB9@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <20110107150755.GA90911@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <AANLkTik7fS0y=Xkvp-vv4LuTLdKKnE1d%2BndRMtR9_a20@mail.gmail.com> <20110107120259.GA44135@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20110107140513.GA82088@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20110107150755.GA90911@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Sent from my iPhone On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:05:14PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: >=20 >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:02:59PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a >>>> binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running >>>> 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a >>>> remote client site where it's not going to be easy to do it that way, >>>> and I'm going to need to guide someone less experienced through the >>>> install/upgrade process. >>>=20 >>> An upgrade using a CD wouldn't work as the filesystem changed from >>> UFS1 to UFS2 betweeen 4 and 5. >>=20 >> That by itself should not be a showstopper, since newer FreeBSD >> releases (incl. 8.1) still support UFS1 and can run perfectly fine on >> it. Although it is generally a good idea to use UFS2 rather than UFS1 >> with FreeBSD 5+ it is certainly not necessary. >=20 > The thing to do is create the UFS2 new system and use it to read > the stuff you need from the old UFS1 system/disk. Then just use > the new disk. >=20 Maybe I'm just imagining things, but I somehow recall that some guru had pos= ted a technique for converting UFS1 to UFS2 by way of dump/restore while boo= ted from a live distro. Was I dreaming? -- Cheers, Devin > ////jerry >=20 >=20 >> --=20 >> <Insert your favourite quote here.> >> Erik Trulsson >> ertr1013@student.uu.se >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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