On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Jay Gordon wrote: > That's the way I would go about it. > > Jay Gordon > Unix Systems Administrator > DataPipe Managed Hosting Services > - What It Means To Be Sure - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com > Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott > Schappell > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 > to 6.0 > > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > enough. > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it > seems I > need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6. > > My thinking is the best way to do this would be to cvsup, do the > rebuilding > of the world thing boot it to the 5 version then cvsup to 6. > > The server is continuously backed up so rolling back won't be a problem > if I > need to. > > Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? If so, what > intermediate > jump(s) do I need to make to get from 4.11 to 6?
Well, it might depend a lot on what sort of stuff you have accumulated by using those ports. If it is basically compatible with the ports versions that go along with 6.2 (same file formats, etc) and if you have your own data well separated from OS and ports working storage, then the whole process might be easier as a clean new install - even on a clean new (bigger - might as well now when it is easy) disk. Mainly, I think it will take less time to do the single new install than to do multiple upgrades and builds to bring things up to date. I believe there are also some file system improvements that you will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx level. If some of your third party stuff or ports make incompatible changes in formats of data that you want to keep, then you might have to make incremental steps to make sure it uses whatever conversions are put in the upgrade processes along the way. I don't know of any off hand, but I use only a limited set of ports so just may not run across them. You would need to make handy copies of config files which you may have to hand merge to get everything up and running - not so much for the main OS as possibly for some ports, but you might have to do that anyway - which ever way you do it. Once you get things up and running at 6.2 or whatever, then import the data you want to keep and you should be OK. A clean install is also a possibly good time to reorganize where things are kept and how they are organized if you have felt the need. I did a couple of clean install jumps from 4.xx to 6.1 and really had no problem a while back. Have fun, ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
