Steve Bertrand wrote:
I want to upgrade my 4.11-STABLE server to 5.4-STABLE. I'm
very used to using cvsup to upgrade between minor releases
(IIRC the box was 4.9 or 4.10
originally) but a jump between major versions is scaring me a bit :)
Oddly enough, and a little OT, (but semi-within the topic) I'm trying to
update a 5.0 box to RELENG_5 right now with several different errors,
too many to mention (generally they occur after rebooting after my
installkernel. I can subsequently reboot off of kernel.old, as always).
That's not surprising, if your kernel and userland are too far out of sync,
lots of things won't work right like ps and ipfw and so forth. If the kernel
boots OK into single-user mode, it should be OK to do the installworld.
Anyway, you really don't want to stay with 5.0, even if it takes a reinstall
from a 5.4 CD to get there.... :-)
Since this is only a data box (running Samba), I'm not too worried, as
I'll just reinstall...but I thought I'd throw it out there to see if
there is a better approach to this particular upgrade
(ie...incremental), as well as OP to get us both to STABLE.
Note I also have a real production box at the following with the same
issue, however, it's much more relied apon, so an upgrade as opposed to
rebuild solution would be nice:
FreeBSD pearl.ibctech.ca 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #4: Fri Jun 24
12:14:21 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PEARL
i386
Take full backups before you do anything. The thing is, there is nothing wrong
with a 4.11 system, either, especially if it is a uni-processor machine. For
SMP hardware, I'd be tempted to jump directly to 6.0 or wait for 6.1, rather
than move to the middle/end of the 5.x releases.
Keeping your ports up-to-date is a bigger concern, but things like portaudit
and the people working on submitting both security warnings and patches to the
ports help...
--
-Chuck
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