Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:13:26 +0800 From: "stormjumper" <stormjumper@myrealbox.com> To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro>, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how does one upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9 Message-ID: <011201c3f476$8b4b44f0$f68c8489@stf.nus.edu.sg> References: <012e01c3f231$c87a3f80$bf7ba8c0@stf.nus.edu.sg><qm2q20ljgnmhfkgbirfpn4sh0fvafo5oki@4ax.com><402D1143.7060502@daleco.biz> <20040213201447.01e4bda4@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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Thanks to everyone who emailed me directly or responded to this thread for the advice given. In this case, I'll probably wait for FreeBSD 5.x to reach production status and install from scratch. regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>; <stormjumper@myrealbox.com>; <newbies@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 02:14 Subject: Re: how does one upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9 > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:02:43 -0600 > "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > > > John Murphy wrote: > > > > >"stormjumper" <stormjumper@myrealbox.com> wrote: > > > > > >>hi everyone, > > >> > > >>I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 at the moment, just wondering if someone can point > > >>me to a relevant web-page take explains the process of upgrading to a > > >>different version clearly. > > > > > >See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes-i386.html#UPGRADE > > > > > >Which explains that there are two ways, binary or source. It also mentions > > >that you read /usr/src/UPDATING (when you have the new sources) as well. > > > > > >>Is there an issue if i "skip" versions, say from 4.4 to 4.9? or 4.8 to 5.2, > > >>the RELEASE issues notwithstanding? > > > > > >4.4 to 4.9 should be straightforward but 4.8 to 5.2 would be harder, but all > > >possible issues are usually well covered in /usr/src/UPDATING. > > > > > And 4.X to 5.X is recommended *against* by some > > users/community members. A dump of your data > > and a fresh install is better, they say. > > > > Part of the reason is so that you have opportunity > > to switch to ufs2 filesystems; the rest, I'm not sure > > about. > > You will run in some problems because of files left from 4.9, that are > not present and/or have other names in 5.2. It will give you a lot of > manual work to do. > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user > > >
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