Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:40:02 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE... Message-ID: <20060113204002.GE47416@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <43C628D2.3070500@ntlworld.com> References: <43C540A1.7060805@ntlworld.com> <200601111059.21012.kstewart@owt.com> <43C628D2.3070500@ntlworld.com>
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--XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:00:50AM +0000, Crispy Beef wrote: > >There have been major changes in processes such as threads. You also=20 > >have to boot the 5.3 update in single user mode to have a kernel that=20 > >accepts the new arrangement and then install the userland. Before 5.1=20 > >or 5.2 it didn't matter much but there was an fs change that you update= =20 > >in single user mode or boot the fix disc to finish the botched update. > > > >You also have the problem that probably none of your ports from 4.x will= =20 > >work at 6.0. This could take quite a bit of time to upgrade. >=20 > One advantage is that I didn't really bother with the ports on that serve= r,=20 > I rolled my own apps as I wasn't totally up with the ports system at the= =20 > time, just seemed easier until I go the hang of it, so I probably would g= o=20 > for a fresh install of ports and get the latest versions of software=20 > installed that way. You'll need to delete them all by hand somehow, of course. Otherwise you'll have conflicts between your old and new stuff. > The server is used for web hosting so I only really need to save out a fe= w=20 > config files for virtual hosts etc. and the email directories. >=20 > It's sounding as though it might be easier just to have an hour or two of= =20 > downtime late one night and do a fresh install... Yes, this will be easiest (or use sysinstall's 'upgrade' mode). Unless you have a serial console, doing the src upgrade will be hard and prone to dramatic failure. Kris --XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDyBAiWry0BWjoQKURAkFiAJ97zXJxjxZUxjIY1eg6YPiJI37iWgCgtFQO ezp5OrfRHD8i36VYIhJul9c= =2XPU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XuV1QlJbYrcVoo+x--
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