From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 29 13:58:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A15216A415 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from mx.nitro.dk (zarniwoop.nitro.dk [83.92.207.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274A213C45A for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (unknown [192.168.3.39]) by mx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37A178C72; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 613E61141E; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:58:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:58:49 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Charles Sprickman Message-ID: <20061229135848.GC996@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:58:50 -0000 On 2006.12.28 19:55:55 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Is there any official doc on this? Perhaps I'm just not finding it? I > would assume since everyone is being urged to get away from 4.x that > somewhere there's a good step-by-step on how to do that. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html#UPGRADE That is the one I used (or perhaps I used it from 5.3-RELEASE, but should be the same), when I recently upgraded a system 4->5->6. The 5->6 should be pretty much like any other FreeBSD upgrade, just follow the normal documented upgrade procedure and don't skip steps. My upgrade actually turned out to be pretty painless and just work. -- Simon L. Nielsen