Chuck Swiger wrote:
Robert Yoon wrote:
I am planning on upgrading from the 4.x tree to the 6.x tree.
I have been reading online and have found little or no reference
information.
Presumably reading /usr/src/UPDATING and the FreeBSD handbook would prove
useful.
I would like to actually do this without a make world scenario, and have
read some info bout booting off a usb device with 6.0 on it and copying
stuff over. Anyone know of or heard bout this by any chance?
Have fun.
However, it's unclear why you'd bother with USB when simply performing a binary
upgrade installation from a 6.0 or 6.1beta ISO image on a CD would achieve the
same end result....
Also what recommendations would you make if you were to upgrade from 4.x
tree to 5 or 6?
Read the fine documentation. Follow instructions carefully. Have good backups.
In particular, there is some *very fine* documentation at:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
I'd recommend looking at the "early adopter's guide" for 5.0 or 5.1, and
a "migration guide" from a later release such as 5.3. The 4.X -5.X jump
tends to be the tricky one, but Bruce Mah has spelled it out quite well.
If you can hit 5.X successfully, jumping to 6 should be quite pain-free.
YMMV, of course.
Kevin Kinsey
--
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a
lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
-- Christopher Hampton
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