UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING I have # locate UPDATING /usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner http://www.mailscanner.info/ , and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
/usr/src/UPDATING is part of the regular /usr/src tree. You will see this on the install CD or if you cvsup to a newer version. -Derek At 10:20 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING I have # locate UPDATING /usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING -- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks http://www.transtec.co.uk/transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks http://www.transtec.co.uk/transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
On Apr 2, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING I have # locate UPDATING /usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING After you did a cvsup with src-all in the supfile there should be a /usr/src/UPDATING file. Read it before updating, it can help you not getting in trouble. I just did an upgrade although that was from 6.0 to 6.2 so not perfectly comparable. But it workedout fi. e, I used the nex thowto: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos The howto is only fine, although I had some issues with understanding mergemaster. Mergemaster askes you whether to use the new file, the old file or to merge them. When merging them it gives a left and a right file and the diffs of it. You just have to select which one of them you want to keep. Well, good luck and make sure you have a working level 0 dump at hand to restore in case everything goes wrong. -- Guido www.rottnic.nl 0 From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later version CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for your setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first. Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases. -Derek At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew of issues with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav- My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have been doing for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time for me to resolve as I am a one man IT department here. The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the upgrade to 6.2 - I have the following hardware- PIII 500mhz 256 ram 8 gig hard-drive The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets passed to my exchange server- Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this upgrade, since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming mail- lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or makeworld- what would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in the BSD world- Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
