From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 12: 8:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufficiopostale.it (servizi.interazioni.it [194.183.4.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A62537B4BD for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 94911 invoked by uid 85); 23 Jun 2002 19:07:55 -0000 Received: from tonix@interazioni.it by avsmtp.ufficiopostale.it by uid 88 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (nod32: 1.272 (20020621)/. Clear:. Processed in 0.263774 secs); 23 Jun 2002 19:07:55 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: tonix@interazioni.it via avsmtp.ufficiopostale.it X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.12 (Clear:. Processed in 0.263774 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO NATIARM1.interazioni.it) (tonix@interazioni.it@62.98.204.26) by xsmtp.ufficiopostale.it with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Jun 2002 19:07:54 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020623210112.0466ae98@pop.ufficiopostale.it> X-Sender: tonix@interazioni.it@pop.ufficiopostale.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:06:10 +0200 To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl From: "tonix (Antonio Nati)" Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.6 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <628414168.20020623141837@dds.nl> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020621143524.00a71a08@pop.ufficiopostale.it> <5.1.1.6.0.20020621143524.00a71a08@pop.ufficiopostale.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 23/06/2002 23/06/2002 +0200, Alex wrote: >tAN> May anyone suggest if this plan may works, or suggest me different paths? >tAN> A) Backup old system (megatar.tar.Z) >tAN> B) Create new system, with minimal FreeBSD 4.0 installation, creation of >tAN> all disks, etc... >tAN> C) Restore of megatar.tar.z in new system > >You will at lease use a image tool not an archive tool. Check out dd >or ghost (windows). And it would only work if you got the same kind of >hardware on the system. (I have had no experience with dd.) Since its >new hardware you have nothing to lose. > >If it works you have the same system on the new hardware. Do a make >world just in case there are minor problems. I understand what you mean, but I prefer to avoid dd or such. I don't need to create boot record or devices, because I want to do that with the first minimal installation. New hardware has new devices, so I must make a first minimal installation to create and use them. (I've forgotten to say that I exclude /dev from the megatar.tar.Z). Thanks anyway, Tonino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message