Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:49:16 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. Message-ID: <b269bc570909151149x25be3e66i24302ab46e73d87f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0909151133u2a9204e0ma9cb1ddda586c2f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <SNT114-W30A82828223906987304DBEDE30@phx.gbl> <F594CA78-1AB9-4C5E-B787-5A05B1A88660@exscape.org> <6201873e0909151133u2a9204e0ma9cb1ddda586c2f6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org > >wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Rom Albuquerque wrote: > > > > Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check > >> and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going > to > >> be spinning my wheels on this one. > >> > >> The Objective. > >> ============== > >> > >> I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X > >> from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE > from > >> the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that > >> could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall > >> to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level > >> backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ? > >> In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old > >> distribution is a doable task ? > You can't go directly from 4.x to 7.x. You have to do it in multiple steps. The most conservative method would be: 4.9 --> 4-STABLE (RELENG_4) 4-STABLE --> 5.0 (RELENG_5_0_0_RELEASE) 5.0 --> 5-STABLE (RELENG_5) 5-STABLE --> 6.0 (RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE) 6.0 --> 6-STABLE (RELENG_6) 6-STABLE --> 7.0 (RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE) 7.0 --> 7.2 (RELENG_7_2) Some of those steps may be possible to skip. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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