From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 03:22:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDCD16A41F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DC943D46 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9200B5D40; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:22:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65622-02; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:22:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A3B5C21; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:22:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4369828F.70203@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:22:55 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Bertrand References: <20051103001847.BCCA543D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051103001847.BCCA543D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: Upgrading 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:22:51 -0000 Steve Bertrand wrote: >>I want to upgrade my 4.11-STABLE server to 5.4-STABLE. I'm >>very used to using cvsup to upgrade between minor releases >>(IIRC the box was 4.9 or 4.10 >>originally) but a jump between major versions is scaring me a bit :) > > Oddly enough, and a little OT, (but semi-within the topic) I'm trying to > update a 5.0 box to RELENG_5 right now with several different errors, > too many to mention (generally they occur after rebooting after my > installkernel. I can subsequently reboot off of kernel.old, as always). That's not surprising, if your kernel and userland are too far out of sync, lots of things won't work right like ps and ipfw and so forth. If the kernel boots OK into single-user mode, it should be OK to do the installworld. Anyway, you really don't want to stay with 5.0, even if it takes a reinstall from a 5.4 CD to get there.... :-) > Since this is only a data box (running Samba), I'm not too worried, as > I'll just reinstall...but I thought I'd throw it out there to see if > there is a better approach to this particular upgrade > (ie...incremental), as well as OP to get us both to STABLE. > > Note I also have a real production box at the following with the same > issue, however, it's much more relied apon, so an upgrade as opposed to > rebuild solution would be nice: > > FreeBSD pearl.ibctech.ca 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #4: Fri Jun 24 > 12:14:21 EDT 2005 steve@pearl.ibctech.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PEARL > i386 Take full backups before you do anything. The thing is, there is nothing wrong with a 4.11 system, either, especially if it is a uni-processor machine. For SMP hardware, I'd be tempted to jump directly to 6.0 or wait for 6.1, rather than move to the middle/end of the 5.x releases. Keeping your ports up-to-date is a bigger concern, but things like portaudit and the people working on submitting both security warnings and patches to the ports help... -- -Chuck