Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:27:40 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x Message-ID: <16633.10572.42186.100897@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <1048.216.195.139.40.1090068712.squirrel@new.host.name> References: <1048.216.195.139.40.1090068712.squirrel@new.host.name>
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Brent Bailey writes: > The customer is running a file server samba also running apache > running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make > buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Your familiarity not withstanding, I would recommend against this. About the only reason to do this upgrade in-place is the utter lack of machines on which to put a fresh installation. The reasons _not_ to do this are legion, starting with disruption of a production enviroment and the (non-trivial) possibility it won't work and won't be restorable, all the way to reclaiming disk space used by abandoned executables/libraries/data. If desirable, it will also provide the opportunity to increase disk size and re-partition to meet actual use rather than following generic guidelines. Robert Huff
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