Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/09/06 06:05 Erik Trulsson said the following: The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Dinesh Nair writes: The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct upgrades. there's been

RE: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-08 Thread fbsd_user
To take advantage of the new file system ufs2 which became part of FreeBSD in 5.0 you need to install from scratch. You are so far behind that its far better to start over again after saving your user data. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Is there a procedure for upgrading 4.x to 6.x? Simply doing `buildworld' does not work -- even make can not be rebuilt without the stdint.h, for example. If you are trying to upgrade via source you will have to first upgrade from