Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:32:53 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: robert@letsget.bz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question bout migrating from 4.X tree to 5.x or even 6.x Message-ID: <443372A5.1040803@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <4433009B.60801@letsget.bz> References: <4433009B.60801@letsget.bz>
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Robert Yoon wrote: > I am planning on upgrading from the 4.x tree to the 6.x tree. > I have been reading online and have found little or no reference > information. I think a lot of stuff was written when 5.3 was announced, that was when 5.x branch was declared "stable" IIRC. > I would like to actually do this without a make world scenario, and have > read some info bout booting off a usb device with 6.0 on it and copying > stuff over. > Anyone know of or heard bout this by any chance? If you have an extra machine or can afford the downtime, then you might save yourself a lot of work by simply doing a clean install this time. IIRC this was the "recomended method" for upgrading 4.x to 5.x. Part the reason I guess is that there has been a lot of reorganizing so building and installing from src may leave a lot of junk around. Recently make targets, "delete-old" and "delete-old-libs", have been added but I'm not sure if that would clean up after 4.x. > Also what recommendations would you make if you were to upgrade from 4.x > tree to 5 or 6? I think the major jump is going from 4.x to 5.x, I have since 5.x made incremental upgrades to 6.x without any problems. So, you might as well go straight to 6.x and skip 5.x entirely. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9
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