Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:54:05 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: krzysztof Strzelczyk <cs052279@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade question Message-ID: <20020313075405.B13433@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020312174118.95387.qmail@web14808.mail.yahoo.com>; from cs052279@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:41:18AM -0800 References: <20020312174118.95387.qmail@web14808.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:41:18AM -0800, krzysztof Strzelczyk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am doing an upgrade for a friend whic will
> require me to upgrade from FreeBSD-3.4-release to the
> current stable version. I have done cvsup upgrades
> before but never across so many versions. Are there
> any know problems with upgrading across so many
> version?
If you can get hold of a install CD, I'd recommend that you do a minimal
upgrade installation onto the 4.X series and then cvsup to latest.
The jump fro 3.x to 4.x involves some boot-block changes that may make
it very difficult to recover from.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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