Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:10:03 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting ports updated on an older FreeBSD (5.1) Message-ID: <833145.91368.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <86oak6p8w9.fsf@bsdstb.Belkin> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1506231601000.58123@wonkity.com>
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I don't really know what to quote here, but another consideration is that a new FreeBSD will want or need more RAM and hard-disk space than was prevalent at the time of FreeBSD 5.1. That means a new computer. There are adapters, IDE <-> SATA and USB -> IDE, to transfer data from old IDE hard drives to a newer computer that has SATA and no IDE on motherboard. Also possibly NFS. Other changes are MBR -> GPT and old static device nodes with MAKEDEV (such as NetBSD and OpenBSD still have) to devfs. I was thinking about the possibility of building/upgrading the base FreeBSD from source by steps, such as 5.1 -> final 6-stable -> final 8-stable -> 10.1 or possibly FreeBSD-current. Or maybe shorter steps? Might be possible, but would likely be easier to download 10.1 or a snapshot of 10.1-STABLE or 11-current and install that. Use bsdinstall? In any case the ports would need to be rebuilt on new system. Tom
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