From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 2:57:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (numeri.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9156037B6BA for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numeri.campus.luth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA55212; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:57:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Message-Id: <200007210957.LAA55212@numeri.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Homerton Webmaster" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.1.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:38:41 BST." <000901bff2f7$74ce3c20$e2f799c3@corpex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:57:31 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:38:41 BST, "Homerton Webmaster" wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just found a 2.1.0 machine hidden away in a room. Is it possible to > upgrade this in a > single hop to 4.1RC or would I be better off just reinstalling from scratch? No it is not supported. You need to go like this 2.1.0 -> (maybe some more step here) -> 2.2.8 -> 3.0 -> 3.4 -> 4.0 -> 4.1 Hence, reinstall the thing :-) /K > > I've only done 2 or 3 updates from source and they have all been extremely > painless, > but I thought it might be useful for the experience? > > - Matt > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message