I've done the upgrade from 3.4 to 4.x stable a few times. I
genrally go from 3.4->3.5-Stable and then 3.5-Stable ->
4.x-stable.
Basically, if you follow the instructions in UPDATING, it should go well.
If you take UPDATING seriously and actually reboot into single user when
it tells you to, it will likely be painless. There are ways to get around
going into single user, but if you have the luxury of a console, don't
sweat it.
-Marius
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Steffen Vorrix wrote:
> I have been tracking this list for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and I have learned alot
>more about FreeBSD then I thought I might. I have successfully upgrade my two home
>FreeBSD machines from 4.2 REL to the current stable version, and everything went just
>fine. However, I now need to upgrade 2 production machines for my employer, and
>these have to go as painlessly as possible. The problem is that these machines are
>3.4 REL. I have looked through the mail over the past weeks, and I have found people
>mention that 3.4 to 4 can have some gotcha's associated with it, but I haven't seen
>anything specifically mentioned. Are there things that I need to watch out for? The
>reference that I am referring to was a thread regarding remotely updating servers.
>While this was frowned upon by almost everyone in the list, one person specifically
>mentioned that remote updating would be a problem from a 3.x to a 4.x. I don't plan
>to do any remote updating, but I want to be sure there aren't other things I need to
>watch out for.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Chris Schremser
>
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