Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:08:11 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> To: "Crispy Beef" <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGAEFMHLAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <43C540A1.7060805@ntlworld.com>
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There is a new and faster file system which is introduced in release-5.4. I highly recommend that you install 6.0 from scratch and build your old server services anew to a development box you have personal access to. Then remove the hard drive and ship it to you remote site and swap with your production drive. That way you get the new file system in production and have quick fall back if things don't work. There is a lot of maintenance benefits to be had from a new clean built from scratch server. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Crispy Beef Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... Hi, I have a production server running 4.6-RELEASE and I would like to bring it upto date and get 6.0-RELEASE on there. I have a rough idea of what needs to be done to accomplish this from reading various docs but it would be nice to see how smoothly it has gone for any others. From what I can tell I first need to upgrade to a minimum of 5.3-RELEASE and then onto 6.0, so I guess doing a cvsup to the 5.3-RELEASE and then doing buildworld et all? Then from there to same to get to 6.0? My main concern is the filesystem, it's been updated since 4.x? Will this mess things up? The machine is remote so I really need to make sure this works without making it inaccessible. I have a box here to trial run the process on so I get the steps correct first time, but thought I'd ask here too. :-) _______________________________________________ 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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