Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:07:55 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>, patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1? Message-ID: <20110107150755.GA90911@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20110107140513.GA82088@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <AANLkTik7fS0y=Xkvp-vv4LuTLdKKnE1d%2BndRMtR9_a20@mail.gmail.com> <20110107120259.GA44135@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20110107140513.GA82088@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:05:14PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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: > > > > > > 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. > > > > An upgrade using a CD wouldn't work as the filesystem changed from > > UFS1 to UFS2 betweeen 4 and 5. > > 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. 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. ////jerry > -- > <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.org"
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