On Fri, Dec 30, 2005, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > > Directly jumping from 4 to 6 might work similar to the 4 to 5 procedure > > but I've never tried this. > > No. Source-upgrading to 6.X can only be done from 5.3-RELEASE (or newer > RELENG_5). So somebody trying to do a source upgrade from 4.X needs to > do it in two steps.
Yes, but if you look at my 4 to 5 upgrade procedure in detail you will see that it isn't just a straight-forward "build from source" approach. It actually uses a rather strange but necessary "overwrite the running system with new binaries and then rebuild from source" approach. And I'm still not seeing why this wouldn't work for a direct 4 to 6 upgrade. This upgrade approach is far away from being pretty and elegant, of course. But it allows one to fully remotely upgrade a FreeBSD box without access to the console and single user mode (which was the hard problem I had to circumvent). And I still think it could be adapted for a direct 4 to 6 jump, although I cannot recommend doing this approach if it can be avoided. > But in general for such a "large" upgrade I'd strongly urge backing up > all data, wiping the disk(s), and reinstalling + restoring. (For what > it's worth, I specifically recommended this in the 5.X Early Adopters > Guide.) Sure, at least if someone wants UFS2 this is the only possibility at all AFAIK... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralf S. Engelschall FreeBSD.org/~rse [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer www.engelschall.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
