Re: how does one upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu (itetcu_at_apropo.ro)
Date: 02/13/04

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    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:14:47 +0200
To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>

    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
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