On 9/28/05, Jay Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:43 pm, Peter Clutton wrote: > > > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not > > > clear > > > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed > > > source > > > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)? > > > > This might help: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > No hard drive messing required. You will also need to read up on csv in > > handbook. > > This is pretty old hardware - 200 MHz Pentium; I tried the makeworld route > once before, and it took too long. I just wanted a nice, simple, binary > upgrade... maybe that's not possible; maybe I will have to do a fresh > install. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
If I were you, I'd try the binary update first. In the hard drive configuration screens, leave the partiotions untouched (press q in the partiotioning screen) and type in the mount points in the labelling screen. You can check out your current mount points by typing "# mount" on your running system. Just jot it down - and type it in later. Also make sure the newfs toggles are off (this is probably the default) if you don't want to reformat your drive. If you get stuck, you can try to install 5.4 over 5.2 without formatting your partitions. Just use the same set of instructions. You might need to run mergemaster after installation. And if you don't have any important data on the hard drive - why bother at all? Just make a clean install. Cheerz, Andrew P. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"