Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:41:37 -0400 From: Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0 Message-ID: <p05200f01c4c67e4eba96@[192.168.2.249]> In-Reply-To: <g7qe80$ogs$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <p05200f3bc4c60066097d@[192.168.2.249]> <g7qe80$ogs$1@ger.gmane.org>
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** At 00:25 +0200 on 08/12/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: >Vince Sabio wrote: >>I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), >>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? > >Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. >5.1 is very old (it's not even labeled STABLE Neither am I -- so my FreeBSD box and I are even. >- are you sure "FreeBSD updates" track such old releases?) I don't think they do. >and there might be unexpected problems. > >>2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris >>sysadmin experience, but have no experience (yet) with FreeBSD >>updates. Is there a site with step-by-step instructions for the >>uninitiated, to help minimize Pr(failure)? >> >>3. Anything else I should know? > >You probably don't want to do it with binary upgrades, for many >reasons, including unexpected problems (i.e. possibility of ending >up with a system so messed up nobody could help you restore it). Do >a source upgrade to 6.0 then to 7.0 - it's not hard. For best >effects, you need to also recompile all additional ports installed >on the server (actually, you *can* run ports compiled for 5.x on 7.x >but as soon as you need to upgrade one of them, you'll probably need >to upgrade all or most of them because of cross-dependencies). Got it. There are sites that go through the 6.x to 7.0 upgrade, but I've foud nothing that explains how to get from 5. to 6.x. Any ideas here? __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio vince@vjs.org
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