Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Randy Bush wrote: : > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to : > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to : > > current" in UPDATING? : > : > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2: : > : > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD : > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...] : : Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous: FreeBSD 4.11 : (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004). However, : I guess that's not what the release notes really mean. Older here means 'numerically smaller' not 'released earlier'. Warner ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
Randy Bush wrote: any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current" in UPDATING? Back up important data, and do a clean install of 6. At minimum, by trying to upgrade in place you'll not get UFS2 partitions. And unless you've bumped the default partition sizes since you installed 4.x, you'll probably not be happy with life in a 6-stable world. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
If memory serves me right, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to > > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to > > > current" in UPDATING? > > > > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2: > > > > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD > > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...] > > Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous: FreeBSD 4.11 > (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004). However, > I guess that's not what the release notes really mean. Sorry. :-( The case of someone trying to upgrade from 4.X to 6.X hadn't occurred to me when I wrote that (because, as noted, 4.X to 5.X is non-trivial). > For the mentioned update from 4.x to 6.x, I would go via > a binary upgrade, which has probably fewer pitfalls and > is finished a lot faster than a source upgrade. I'd advise that as well. Bruce. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to > > current" in UPDATING? > > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2: > > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...] Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous: FreeBSD 4.11 (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004). However, I guess that's not what the release notes really mean. For the mentioned update from 4.x to 6.x, I would go via a binary upgrade, which has probably fewer pitfalls and is finished a lot faster than a source upgrade. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." -- Jamie Zawinski, when asked: "What's wrong with perl?" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
> "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade > 6.0-CURRENT will need to update to FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to > FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT." sigh. on that path now. it has rocks. randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
Randy Bush wrote: any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current" in UPDATING? I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2: "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems wanting to upgrade 6.0-CURRENT will need to update to FreeBSD 5.3 or newer first, then to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT." Björn -- Björn König ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
4.11 to RELENG_6
any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current" in UPDATING? randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
