From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 06:48:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D8116A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:48:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@contexthosting.net) Received: from mail.contexthosting.net (inception.centerfuse.net [209.120.245.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862A043D49 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:48:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@contexthosting.net) Received: (qmail 96649 invoked by uid 89); 11 Oct 2005 06:48:03 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.7 ppid: 96645, pid: 96647, t: 0.0365s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (jim@contexthosting.net@68.80.252.242) by 0 with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Oct 2005 06:48:03 -0000 Message-ID: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:47:59 -0400 From: Jim Keller User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:48:05 -0000 Hello, I'm trying to determine which version of FreeBSD to install on a new server I have coming in, since I know that the 5 branch is to become an errata branch sooner rather than later. The migration guide from 4.x to 5.x recommends a clean install of FreeBSD followed by data restoration, which makes sense considering the major changes in 5.x, especially to the filesystem. However, will this still hold true for going from 5.x to 6? I'd prefer to install 5.4 for now then run a buildworld later and bump it to 6, but will buildworld be a reasonable way of going from 5.4 to 6? Thanks -Jim Keller