Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:50:16 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0 Message-ID: <455A1DF8.8030606@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <F0E40104E1936B46B8B8FA469D2269450F138CC6@exchewr01.datapipe-corp.net> References: <F0E40104E1936B46B8B8FA469D2269450F138CC6@exchewr01.datapipe-corp.net>
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Jay Gordon wrote: > That's the way I would go about it. > > Jay Gordon > Unix Systems Administrator > DataPipe Managed Hosting Services > - What It Means To Be Sure - > jgordon@datapipe.com | http://www.datapipe.com > Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Scott > Schappell > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 > to 6.0 > > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > enough. > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it > seems I > need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6. > > My thinking is the best way to do this would be to cvsup, do the > rebuilding > of the world thing boot it to the 5 version then cvsup to 6. > > The server is continuously backed up so rolling back won't be a problem > if I > need to. > > Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? If so, what > intermediate > jump(s) do I need to make to get from 4.11 to 6? > That's a major set of version jumps though, so you may want to consider a clean install of 6.x via binaries, then source upgrade to 6.2 in a couple of weeks using cvsup once it's made stable; besides, reinstalling would be trivial if you copy down your /etc files you need to keep, as well as your packages / ports db (/var/db/ports), and home directories. Besides, if you do a clean reinstall at least you might claim back some space that was being used by leftover cruft from packages, uninstalled packages, or 'ancient' :) OS features. -Garrett
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