Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:19:06 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Sessler, Enrico" <Enrico.Sessler@sca.com>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Downgrade FreeBSD 5.1 or 5.2 -> 4.9 Message-ID: <p0602048abc35b43cbdb2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se> References: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sca.se>
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At 9:01 AM +0100 1/22/04, Sessler, Enrico wrote: >Hello, > >is there a way to downgrade from FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE >or 5.2-CURRENT to the latest 4.x version? This would be very hard for us to support, and I expect you will have a lot of trouble trying to do an "in place" downgrade to 4.x. You will have much less trouble if you just resign yourself to backing-up the data you need to some safe place, and do a fresh install (ie, reformat the drives using the 4.9 installation discs, and install everything from scratch). I realize that is a lot of work. However, I am pretty sure that will be less work than trying to do a "simple downgrade". >Note: I have no console access to the machines only >telnet/rlogin. Thus using a boot floppy/CD is not possible. This makes it even less likely that you will be successful doing a downgrade to 4.9. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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